“Between travelers and merchants, pilgrims and conquerors,
the world has seen much long-distance (and long-term) cultural traffic. This
much seems self evident” (511). The beginning of Appadurai’ work he discusses
this idea of how the world is almost cluttered. There is expansion and capitalism,
which are a vast majority. He then discusses different examples of history and how
they have been influenced.
He then starts to discuss the Reproduction end of Mechanical
Art, which ties into Walter Benjamins essay. Appaduri says, “First, the sort of
trans generational stability of knowledge that was presupposed in the most
theories of enculturation (or, in slightly broader terms, of socialization) can
no longer be assumed” (520). This is the notion of people leaving home and
growing up, or families moving new places, and you just sort of make
assumptions about what it is like before really ever going there or knowing the
truth about what it is like.
The confusing parts of this essay for me are looking at it
at a small perspective which he often points too, but then looking at in a much
more global context on a bigger scale.
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