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Maasai
- Bruner and Kirschenblatt-Gimblett
- Mayers Ranch "imperialist nostalgia"
- Bomas performances "aim to preserve and exhibit"
- Out of Africa Sundance party "Hollywood!"
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Matthews
- Chungking mansions - low end globalization
- Traders from SSA Africa, Bhutan, Yemen
- Harvey's "time space compression"
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Matthews - Neolib
- Hk freest economy in world
- free borders
- benign law enforcement
- = non violence in the pursuit of profit
- neoliberalism as the creator of global peace
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Matthews - mediascapes
- 16 channels broadcasting around the world
- retrenches cultural difference
- "reterritorialization of culture" individuals reinserted into own society
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Appadurai in Matthews
- different scapes have different embodiments
- social globalization not an isomorphic process but has multiple trajectories
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Creighton - Ancestral Village
- Tai Pau in Shatin region of HK
- Village represents "traditional" and HK - modernity, cosmopolitanism, capitalism
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Clifford in Creighton, ancestral village
- people always been travelling, cultures fluctuating
- challenged notion of the bounded, homogeneous village
- argues RS between modernity and tradition is not oppositional but symbiotic
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Clifford - trope setting
- discusses trope setting in anthro - problem with equating village life with traditional
- village fieldwork seen as natural for ethnographic inquiry e.g. Malinowski
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Transzonal influenes
- Japanese style stores at mall despite historic relations
- desire for Japanese goods/lifestyles (like Pokemon)
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Diversity in Tai Pau
- different religions
- language - young people spoke English and moved through borders
- opposition to cell phones but selective
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"Asias World Village"
open to global influences, growing connections of HK into China
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Marcus (1998)
- multi-sited ethnography requires understanding of how local and global proccess embedded into larger systems
- world as a network of relations
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Creighton - KW def and stats
- Hallyu - Korean flows especially in media, tech, economic flows
- Korean largest minority group in Japan
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Japan recognises minorities
- 1997
- Resident Koreans part of soc but do not have same rights
- citizenship not on birth but bio descendence
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Impact of KW on Resident Koreans
- helped foster positive relations
- 2005 Friendship Year
- Cultural understanding
- Increased travel
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"Drama Tourism"
- Winter Sonata
- hegemonic gender reflections
- inverting Japanese hierarchies
- reimagining of gender in advertising
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Koreascapes
- areas that present, visually highlight and represent Koreans in Japan
- Koreatown, markets, theme parks
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Fung argument
- that the shorter the spatial distance between two cultures, the greater the cultural proximity
- HK as a hub through which Pokemon passes through China, other Asian countries, West
- double capacity
- HK dimension of Western values from colonialism
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HK and Japan convergence
capitalist and Western values and similar social imaginations - cuteness
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"satellite modernity"
- Japan as a more immediate and realizable resource of modernity
- affordable appliances and electronics
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Tobin (1992)
for parachuted foreign cultural product to succeed it must be domesticated and culturally compatible
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Pokemon naturalised
- not just on TV - games, books
- advertising
- Local commerical booster
- teaching material
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Connected in cairo - summary
- Peterson
- struggles, negotiations, challenges that elite men and women face in attempts to materialise specific tastes, visions, ways of being
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quote
- "cultural brokers between East and West, global and local, cultural and modern"
- "balance between fully Egyptian and fully modern"
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students
modern through education and conventional consumption "style"
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students anxieties and religious leader
- anxieties in retaining values of culture and ethics
- appropriate and cultivated behavior
- modernity as a constructionof style
- Preacher Amir Khaled - Western dress and theological conservatism
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Magazines
- try to construct regional idenity
- locally created often carry religious moral lessions - Arab/Islamic identity
- - little interest to children of upper class
- "foreign" books too expensive
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Creighton Article 9
- renounces the right of the State to War
- rejects concept on militarism
- International culture of peace
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Hague Appeal
- 1999 Hague Appeal for Peace
- example for all countries to follow
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contest
- Liberal Democratic Party
- drafted by American - irony
- "normal" country needs to militarised
- but people are largely for it
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counter-contestations
- save article 9 grassroots groups
- 2008 - 7,000
- dispersed globally
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why necessary?
- cultures of peace necesary conditions of a just global society
- war = injustices
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Relevance for East Asian countries
- represents Japan's recognitions of pre-war militarism
- and colonialism
- promise not to allow it again
- abolishing could be threat
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Ainu situation
- presumed dying out, "vanishing"
- languages, intermarrying
- Hilger "salvage anthropology"
- "timeless prisons"
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BUT not dying!.... however...
- modern renaissance
- resurgence of languages and pride
- traditions
- however, conflict with Japans national identity
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Dam
- Nibutani village - largest Ainu village
- important for Ainu mythology
- Dam development
- reveals Japan's inability and unwillingness to consider ethnic groups
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Japan's "internationalisation"
- nations outside
- but have to focus on Japan's internal "others"
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connecting with other groups
- Kwak'wakw'wak collaborative education project
- revitalise education for Indigenous Youth
- "We are still here"
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Kramer Figurative Repatriation
Doxtator "indigenous ownership owing who we are"
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Artist Warriors
- assert self-determination through artwork as a form of activism
- artworks as social agents
- forcibly recover FN objects - sometimes on emotional, personal level
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canadian Musuems
taskforce for first peoples
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Nuxalk Echo masks
- complicated geneology
- owned by lots of families
- elder sold to art dealer
- taken to court, bought back
- but meanings/memories of these engrained
- kept in glass box to stop arguments of who would wear it in potlatches
- sale failed to untangle dilemma of ownership
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