Globalisation

Without looking at your notes write down all the names and theorists

from Monday’s lesson

Cultural Capital

refers to non-financial social assets that promote social mobility beyond economic means. Examples can include education, intellect, style of speech, dress, and even physical appearance, et cetera

The Internet

• Diaspora: a geographically scattered group of people with a shared cultural identity.

• Miller and Slater – the Trini’s • Facebook and Academia- the problems of this. • Ulf Hannerz- transnational communications-

eroding national and regional boundaries.• Global Village’ (McLuhan, 1964).

The names of these chat rooms – de Rumshop Lime, de Trini Lime – evoke central aspects of Trinidadian culture. The ‘lime’ especially evokes the street corner, where males traditionally exchanged innuendo and banter with passing females and aimed to hear about whatever was happening … The rumshop is a local, down-market drinking place, in the old days dominated by dominoes and rum, today often filled with ear-splitting music and Carib beer, another favourite place to lime… The term ‘lime’ is regarded as quintessentially Trini – both peculiar to the place and definitive of its people – and was regularly cited as the Trini pleasure they most wanted to recover on or through the internet. In fact, ‘liming’ was the word generally used to describe chatting online and other non-serious uses of the internet, as it would describe any similar hanging out. The internet comes to be seen simply as liming extended to just another social space…… Trinis pride themselves on verbal dexterity … but here shared by women who are just as proficient at the ambiguous innuendo or the withering put-down. A second vital trait is the ability not to ‘take things on’. This depends on a sense of ‘cool’ that means that traded insults are kept on the surface for batting to and fro like ping-pong balls, and there is a pride in the fact that they therefore do not hurt, cause resentment or penetrate into the wider being of those taking part. Trinis see this ability as differentiaiting them from other regions whose people would be seen as hot-tempered and unable to cope with such insults, especially in the area of sexuality, which is their richest field of production ... The third trait is the basic shared nationalism that means they can together praise but perhaps more often disparage Trinidadians (politicians, institutions, websites, etc.), but with an underlying affinity to Trinidad that would make the same negative comment by an outsider seem highly offensive.(Miller and Slater, 2000, pp.88–90)

1. Is the Trini study for or against Appadurai’s theory of multi-directional flows? Explain your answer.

2. What impact has technology had on:- Diaspora - national boundaries.

The Local

• Detrimental or not? • The Kayapo- how has technology and contact with

Brazialian state agencies changed their society? ( Terrence Turner) p.164.

• Dam building projects- The Ainu (Japan)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjBYtYAOsJc] • http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/

handle/10125/21976/v1i1_02okada.pdf?sequence=1

• Survival • Marcus Colchester – a full time Anthropologist

who works with tribes who face environmental conflict.

‘Globalisation has been detrimental to tribes across the world’ Discuss.