ANTB20H3 Lecture 1: Introduction: What Is Globalization?
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Ideas: human rights and capitalism are ideas that circulate around the world. Ideas circulate through media, such as youtube, facebook, books, radio, T. v. , gossip, etc: the effect of social media is limited in terms of where you are in the world, globalization processes are uneven, but this unevenness is not an accident. It is built into the capitalist system and global economy. Objects: objects that move around the world include food, clothing, metal, medicine, etc, anthropologists think about objects through the commodity chain, which is the production, distribution and consumption of an object.
