ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fiji Water, Kula Ring, Shea Butter
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Lecture 11-global commodity chains: review week 2- we talked about colonialism and sugar plantations. Chinese peoples role has changed in the sugar industry. If you follow it horizontally, you can follow if from production to circulation/ distribution to consumption. By following the horizontal change, you can following a complex process because the things we buy are not coming from one place. It is usually not grown in the global north. It"s a global brand and different societies adopt to syncretize. In our market economy now we pay money. While doing this we disconnect our self"s to the distribution and commodities. Gift economy (week 4) - this is different from market economy because you exchange things and do not add things with money. Kula ring are important concepts related to this: how commodities "dissociate" humans from things - fiji water. It is a private company using the resources of water on fiji.
