SOCA 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Multiracial, Fictive Kinship, Melting Pot
Document Summary
Globalization in latin america, africa, and the caribbean. Key points: globalization, colonialism, and their consequences for these regions, ethnographic studies show effects of globalization in these regions, remember: globalization is a painful process for any society, these regions are through the process faster than industrial regions. Indigenous people were often relocated and placed in supervised garrison towns. Globalization and colonialism: caribbean: effects of colonialism still evident in the territories/ sovereignties in the caribbean, uk: british virgini islands, cayman, montserrat, usa: us virgin islands. Consequences: demographic change, economic change, religious change. Demographic change: native populations were devasted, slave raids, disease, forced migrations had long-lasting effects, long term population growth due to intensive agriculture. Economic change: large scale farming subjugated native people, village communities brought into regional"global economies upset the kinship based systems, result uneven economic development, monocultural dependency: reliance on single resource.
