AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Snowmobile, Sari, Hybridity
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Snowmobile: secondary invention- recombining from known knowledge to produce new object. Tobacco produce in the new world diffuses to europe in the 15th century. Adapt to fit local culture: high chance of success if a person of authority approves and timing coincides. Mattel has altered the doll to fit local cultures: ex. African market introducing a black barbie: india introducing traditional clothing (sari) Mule (offspring of a male donkey and female horse) Loss of culture through culture contact or colonial domination. Destruction of tribal cultures continue residential schools in canada . In the past, anthropologists regularly studied how groups were acculturating in a quickly changing. More anthropologists have become part of native resistance to outside intrusion. The 2007 united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples gives opportunities for indigenous peoples to resist intrusion under international law. The world economy is another influential agent of change in local communities. A few things we need to know about culture.
