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Title: Anthropology and the Changing World: How can Anthropologists Serve Humanity?
Author : Management Science and Engineering
Release Date : January 20, 2009
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 91 KB

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1. INTRODUCTION Change is perhaps the most common aspect of human life experienced in every society of today's world. There may be differences in context, pattern, speed, scale, or extent of changes, but peoples across the globe more or less seem to share experiences of social, cultural and economic alteration in their everyday lives. Globalization, through the spread of the free market economy, the revolution of information and communication technologies (e.g., the spread of the Internet, media and entertainment technologies) rapid urbanization, the spread of consumer culture, and transnational migrations, have interconnected the world economically, culturally and politically. Even remote communities have been influenced by global change. Such change has both positive and negative consequences on peoples' lives. Though many people's have been blessed by economic and technological advancements, economic inequalities between and within nations proliferate. In addition to the continuance, even growth of global poverty, violation of human rights, discrimination and violence against women, and stigmatization and exclusion of ethnic minorities means large numbers of people have little, if any, access to such technologies.