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- | # Modernities # | ||
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- | ## More than one way to do it ## | ||
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- | Ryan Schram | ||
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- | ANTH 1002: Anthropology and the Global | ||
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- | Lecture Notes | ||
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- | 22 September 2014 | ||
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- | Ryan is taking the lectures on Parallel Modernities (Week 9) and | ||
- | Alternate Modernities (Week 10). | ||
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- | ## The twentieth century was busy ## | ||
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- | Things that happened in the twentieth century: | ||
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- | * Electrification | ||
- | * Broadcasting | ||
- | * Mechanized warfare | ||
- | * Nuclear weapons | ||
- | * Decolonization | ||
- | * The rise of superpowers | ||
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- | ## US urbanisation ## | ||
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- | * USA 1900: 30% of people live in cities | ||
- | * USA 1990: nearly 80% live in cities (US Census 1995). | ||
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- | ## World urbanisation ## | ||
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- | * In 1800, 3% of the world lived in cities. | ||
- | * In 1900, 19%. | ||
- | * In 2000, 47% ... and recently over half of people live in cities | ||
- | (The Economist 2007). | ||
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- | ## Town and country ## | ||
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- | * Rural societies have small populations and can be studied up close. **A few big social institutions do most of the work** of integrating society. | ||
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- | * **Urban societies have a higher degree of differentiation.** There are lots of very specialized institutions and a person has to move through many different social contexts. | ||
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- | ===== It's getting better all the time? ===== | ||
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- | Those of us who grew up in a Western culture learned to see this as | ||
- | **progress**. | ||
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- | People who grew up in other cultures learn to see it as **development**. | ||
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- | ## Yeah, right ## | ||
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- | Capitalism has reorganized social relations around money and profit. | ||
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- | Colonial conquests uprooted millions of people and denied people their | ||
- | self-worth. | ||
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- | People sell organs. | ||
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- | There is a giant plastic garbage vortex in the middle of the Pacific | ||
- | ocean. | ||
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- | ## That's about the size ## | ||
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- | People in postcolonial societies have experienced great changes | ||
- | too. And they call these changes, more or less, **modernity**. | ||
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- | But if you look closely, modernity is different every where you look. | ||
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- | ## Multiple modernities ## | ||
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- | For Ongka, modernity means more moka. | ||
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- | For Walter Benjamin, modernity means more shopping. | ||
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- | For Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana, modernity means a | ||
- | free country based on African principles. | ||
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- | For Suharto, a former leader of Indonesia, modernity means a united | ||
- | Indonesian society based on a common philosophy. | ||
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- | ## Two ways ## | ||
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- | There are two ways of thinking about multiple modernities | ||
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- | * **Parallel** modernity: A developing society chooses another society to | ||
- | emulate besides Europe. | ||
- | * **Alternate** modernity: The same social forces which transformed | ||
- | European societies also are at work in other societies, but | ||
- | disguised in locally appropriate forms. | ||
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- | We begin with parallel modernity. | ||
- | ## Indian cinema is as old as European cinema ## | ||
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- | When Dadasaheb Phalke first saw a silent movie in 1910 he thought: | ||
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- | "While the life of Christ was rolling before my eyes, I was mentally visualizing the gods Shri Krishnu, Shri Ramachandra and their Gokul and Ayodhya..." | ||
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- | ## Bollywood ## | ||
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- | Trailer for Mughal-E Azam (K. Asif, 1960) | ||
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- | http:// | ||
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- | ## Parallel modernity ## | ||
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- | * Indian cultural products flow to Nigerian audiences. | ||
- | * Nigerian writers appropriate Indian stories to create something new. | ||
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- | ## References ## | ||
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- | The Economist. 2007. "The World Goes to Town," May 3. http:// | ||
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- | US Census Bureau. 1995. "Urban and Rural Population: 1900 to 1990." Released October. https:// |
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