Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Unit 4 notes
- Field note
- Tata corp plays econ role in
India
- owned by small ethnic group: Parsi
- Parsi numbers decreasing because of traditions
- struggle to maintain culture in global world
- Pop culture diffuses across world
- Harder for local culture to persist
- How are local and
popular cultures
sustained?
- culture: a group of
belief systems, norm,
and values practiced
by a people
- folk/local:
small/rural,
homogeneous
pop
- hard to define, defined by group
themselves
- rely on religion/family
strutcure/ lack of
interaction to preserve
- Popular:
heterogeneous
pop, urban,
changing
- global, rapidly changing
- diffusion through
marketing and
transportation
- fashion trends
- hierarchical diffusion
- material
culture:
physical
things like
art or food
- nonmaterial
culture:
beliefs or
pratices
- How are local
cultures sustained?
- Assimilation: change to another
culture, forced or not
- American Indians
- Sustained through customs
- Custom: practice a group follows
- LC seeks to keep their
culture in and others out
- cultural appropriation: adopting customs for own use
- Rural local
cultures
- Easier to maintain LC by isolation
- Hutterites, Amish, Mennonites
- Makah american Indians reinstated
tradition of whale hunting
- Faced protests,
federal court, and
regualtion
- Urban local
cultures
- ethnic
neighborhoods
- celebrations like feast of
Italian saints
- Places of worship, stores,
and food
- commodification: name or
idea becomes object to be
sold
- LC food or
clothing by
selves or
others
- Authenticity of
places
- Authenticity: feeling of a place
- complex
- Guinness Pubs capitalize on this feeling
- How is popular culture
diffused?
- Pace of
diffusion very
short and
reaching
farther
- facebook
and Xiaonei
- distance
decay no
longer linear
now use
time-space
compression
- Hearths
- Dave Mathew's band
- MTV spreads pop
culture
- Innovators/
trendsetters
- Hip Hop
- started in neighborhoods in LA and NY
before spreading across the world
taking on new iterations based on local culture
- Old big sports
(basketball, baseball,
and football) face
competetion with new
sports like
skateboarding using tv
- Sports have their own
market of masculine
things to advertise
- MMA spreading into
other cultures
- Spreading of pop
culture can feel like
assimilation to Local
cultures
- World more
connected -
american movies in
Korea
- How can local and popular
cultures be seen in the
cultural landscape
- tension between local and pop culture can be
seen in cultural landscape
- cultural landscape: visible imprint of
human activity on the landscape
- Placelessness: loss of uniqueness of a
place
- Skyscrapers are global and a sign of good economic
state
- Fast food chains are also global
- Borrowing of idealized
landscapes
- Venetian hotel and casino in Vegas
- global-local continuum: what happens at
one scale is not independent of what
happens on other scales
- Local changes
national and
global ideas to their
liking: called glocalization
- Variety in cultural landscape is caused by
local culture
- Mormon settlers in the west
changed how cities and farms
looked there