ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Liminality, Global City, World Economy
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Anthropology itself is the product of traveling (colonialism) Ideas of who can and cannot travel and who studies whom . Cannibal tours/ seven up/ liminality/ mating rituals/etc. Mobility itself is a question of power. Anthropologists study culture as a process (capturing culture in action)- cultural reproduction, socialization, embodiment, etc. Currently challenged to study culture through various global projects and processes. Ex. around the world in 80 days. Development of international financial market, expansion of international trade in services- globalization a combination of spatial dispersal and global integration. Increased flow in people, things, and ideas. We live in an age of increased flow of people, things, and ideas. Globalization makes us more connected, but we still have our differences. Instead it has reproduced and contested these differences on a larger geo-historical scale. World economy has shifted from fordism to flexible accumulation. Organized labor and labor unions service, and financial markets around the world.
