Globalization and the Clash of Cultures Our world is globalized‚ meaning that ideas‚ businesses‚ technology‚ and even people are spreading around the world. Immigration is an impressive thing from an outsider’s perspective‚ however second generation immigrants such as myself will disagree with this first glance appearance. What happens when an old culture is introduced to a new one? Is there adaption‚ assimilation‚ or is it simply mixing oil with water? Being a second-generation female immigrant
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1 2 James Clifford Anthropological Locations 1997 6 Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss 1950 Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss James Boon 1982 Horace Miner American Nacirema … 1956:505 Renato Rosaldo 1993 Rosaldo Lévi-Strauss Malinowski 1991 Malinowski Rosaldo 1986 7 E.Evants-Pritchard Foucault being there Clifford Geertz being there 1988:4 : � �being there �ibid.:4-5 — de Certeau de Certeau 107 Ward:2000[2008]:134 Wandersmänner flâneur
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Anthropology Jan15th‚ 2008 Cultural Anthropology -Margaret Mead went to eastern Samoa in 1925 when she was 23‚ and spent nine months in the field studying childrearing patterns and adolescent behaviour -Renato Rosaldo the Ilongot Head-hunters -Clifford Geertz: the Balinese cockfight -Douglass Drozdow-St. Christian: what Samoans consider “good and proper body” and the meanings of making babies into “good and proper bodies” Anthropology 025 Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology
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meanings that people create in the process of social interaction‚ and orients people in their ways of feeling‚ thinking‚ and being in the world. Culture Has been described as that which occupies the space between people in the world. Anthropologist Renato Rosaldo explains that Culture lends significance to human experience by selecting from and organizing
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The purpose of this essay is to evaluate globalisation and the growing multidirectional flows of people‚ objects‚ places and information. Firstly I will focus on globalisation and how migration‚ culture‚ economics and politics fit into the picture. Secondly I will focus on how globalisation has affected Ireland. To gain a better understanding of globalisation I must first define it. “Globalisation is a transplanetary process or set of processes involving increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional
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to nature and males are to culture. Her belief of this theory is to make us think or give us a vision of the differences that went into females and males. How males were higher praised as females were not. The inequalities between the two sexes. Rosaldo argued that “females are not powerless. Females exercise informal influence and power‚ often mitigating male authority‚ or even rendering it trivial.” (Page 82‚ Gender in Cross – Cultural perspective.) Ortner tells us the way a female’s body functions
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Aztec Mythology and Religion The Aztecs were a group of indigenous people who established an extensive empire in Mexico. An important part of Aztec culture revolved around their spiritual and mythological beliefs. They provided a rich and creative background for their religion. In one myth‚ the goddess Coatilcue becomes impregnated by putting a feather into her shirt‚ in another‚ two gods jumped into a fire and turned into suns. These myths established how creative the Aztecs could be in creating
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Culture and Society ANTHRO 9 Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 A.M. Room: Haines 39 (in basement-A level) Final Exam date: March 18 (Tuesday): 3-6P.M. Instructor Prof. Mariko Tamanoi Email: mtamanoi@anthro.ucla.edu Office: Haines 325 Phone: 310-206-8399 Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT: READ THIS SYLLABUS CAREFULLY TO THE END! Section Leaders Bradley Cardozo: bcardozo@ucla.edu Camille Frazier: c.frazier@ucla.edu Emily
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Self: Implications for Anthropological Epistemology. Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 1. No. 1. pp. 74-88. Marcus‚ G.E. (1998). On ideologies of reflexivity in contemporary efforts to remake the human sciences. Poetics Today. Vol. 15. No. 3. pp. 384-404. Rosaldo‚ R. (1993). ‘Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage’‚ in Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. London: Routledge.
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human nature to be grounded in and reflective of the culture that you have been immersed in since birth‚ as it is your connection to your heritage. In this sense‚ ethnocentrism is not all bad‚ and can be beneficial in promoting cultural diversity (Rosaldo‚ 2000). It becomes bad when we do not acknowledge other cultures or we expect others to adopt our cultural norms because we believe their cultural norms are wrong. This
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