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form of street art founded in NYC in 70's: rapping on sidewalk stoops, outdoor block parties, graffiti on public trains, and breakdancing in public parks.
EX: Japanese Hip-Hop and how they take hip-hop and modify it based on their own local perspectives. |
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| "I Have Nothing" (yi wu suoyou) |
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ANthem for students during the Tianamen Square protests, served as a powerful means for public expression of political and cultural dissent.
EX: Chinese students used this music as propaganda as an alternative to state-run popular music. |
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producing politics based on worldwide values and economic exchanges centered on lifestyle consumerism
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Condry's term for Japanese hip hop nightclubs. Contrasts the intense energy of the club scene with more strile and suspect marketplace
EX: Condry goes to a club in Tokyo called Harlem to experience what he calls Genba Globalism |
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| one party dictator with a market economy |
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taking something foreign and applying local traditions and characteristics to it
EX: the band Tang Dynasty take rock and roll and apply their own instruments and tastes to it |
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A rebellion which confronts socioeconomic problems faced by its participants. It provides a pool of availible symbolic resources which particular individuals or groups can draw on in their attempt to make sense of their own specific situation and create a viable identity.
EX: The chinese students looked towards rock music as a way of opposing their own government at the time. |
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Good that everyone has a right to, Air, water, non rival and non excludable, the consumption of the good by one person does not reduce the availible of the good for all people.
EX: In the movie "Shifting Nature", the rivers in China offer free access for everyone near them. |
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Nature has value in terms of ethnographic research -> how people view this changes/according to culture
EX: Taiwanese elementary textbooks in the 1970's. |
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items in a culture that are commoditized, or are integral to culture
EX: Turtles of the Misquito Indians |
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| using things like art, msic, and theater to brand a culture and the example is how the french use high art to brand their culture as being french |
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market driven approach to economic and social policy stresses the efficiency of private market enterprise
EX: Miskito Indians selling turtles to large companies for monetary profits. |
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market driven approach to economic and social policy stresses the efficiency of private enterprise
EX: Miskito Indians selling turtles to large companies for monetary profits |
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society which produces enough goods only to provide for itself based on a reliance on the renewal and reproduction of nature
EX: The guarani live in a subsistence economy |
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| Slash and Burn Agriculture |
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Process of cutting and burning forests and woodlands to create fields for agriculture or livestock.
EX: The Guarani use slash and burn agriculture to create fields for them to farm on. |
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a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but for generations to come
EX: The guarani people practice sustainable development |
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| Cui Jian's epic masterpiece that centers himself in a basement with this cool saxaphone player, percussionists and a backup guitarist. Their goal is to try and climb the ladder but these hot girls (According to Charlie) are dancing on the stage with red cloths |
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Any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland.
EX: The Martinque's and Guadalupe's living in metropole Paris |
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An economy based on agricultural mass production sometimes associated with slavery.
EX: Martinque and Antilles had plantation economies |
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A feedback in which the system responds to the perturbation (Disturbance) in the same direction as the perturbation
EX: The forest the Guarani people use in Parguay is being distrubed by foreign investors and instead of going away from the disturbance the Guarani indians are going in the same direction by going to the patrones (landowners) for food. |
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| Black French belief that in order to resist French colonialism they have to understand their connection to Africa and their development out of Africa EX: Damas, Senghor, and Cesaire were the first ones to promote this idea |
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| The ideology of Caribbeanness alls for Antillean identities to be grounded in the Caribbean not Europe. Is the idea that people in Guadalupe and Martinique need to come to grip with local identity. Look at themselves situated in the Caribbean and at the economic, political, and social, connection is in the Antilles. Caribbeaness is the central core. EX. The works of Edward Glissant, |
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| Creole is a hybrid and a mix of languages. It is when two languages come into contact in long historical time. Creolite says that Antillean identity is what they make of it. It is made out of the many cultural currents that enter and pass through the Antilles in many different ways. EX. Usually attributed to a manifesto attributed to three Martinician intellectuals |
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| term used in France used to describe areas in which government policies are required to reduce the structural tensions brought on by class differences EX: Policies including healthcare, safety, childcare, retirement, unemployment |
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| ethnic or traditional aspects of life, usually associated with regional or immigrant minorities in France contrasted with le social. EX: The eloge theater group is an ecample because their performances portray le culturel |
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| Paris based antilian theater troupe. EX: Et La Sang Gicla is a play written by an Eloge Member |
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| Antilian arts association which broadens the range of artistic styles associated with Caribean culture in metropolitan France. EX: Antillean members felt that working with Stand-fast would give them valuable performance experience |
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