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ANTH321: Globalisation and Culture
Mass communications, technological advances and the emergence of mass tourism as a result of low cost transportation are powerful forces for cultural change in the contemporary world. For anthropology the globalisation thesis raises important questions about culture; how are we to understand cultures previously understood as bounded entities in a globalising world, and how might we theorise the relationship between the particular or local and the global? Some commentators argue that globalisation is nothing more than the spread of the West; that it is Americanisation or McDonalisation. Others argue that culture does not move only from the 'West to the rest' but flows freely and in multiple directions. History shows us that culture has always been dynamic and changing yet there are certain features that characterise the 'modern', 'late modern' or 'post-modern' world in which we live. In this unit we will draw on a variety of cultural phenomenon such as film, music, food and religion to examine critcally some of the issues which are raised by the globaslisation thesis. We will look at the 'speeding-up' of the world in terms of our experience of time and space. And we will consider the possibility of alternative or parallel modernities.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | 2012 - Next offered in 2012 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Anthropology staff |
| Prerequisites: |
30cp or admission to GDipAnth |
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| NCCW(s): | ANTH275 |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Anthropology |
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