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... -- Course Website
Instructor: Anthropology staff
Prerequisites: 39cp or admission to GDipArtsÂ
