Globalization and Anthropology :: Outsourcing, Offshoring, Free Trade

1. We live in a demesne where nothing is sacred if selling it can make a buck. Be it tourist indigenous memorabilia or your own extra kidney, you can think theres a viable market, and someones spontaneous to buy. Given the fantastic stealth of international transactions, globalized markets evoke particularly unfortunate possibilities for the marginalized in our capitalistic economy. Exposing obscure global issues from tourist art to bio-piracy, Schneider and Scheper-Hughes lucubrate our understanding of globalization by questioning ones office to the agency of others in an increasingly interrelated world. According to Schneider, defining legitimacy is a battle between indigenous hatfuls and the tourists who purchase their arts and crafts. As tourist art grows with the realization of international tourism as way of development and economic growth in marginalized communities, foreign assumptions affect the apprehension of indigenous arts and crafts as legitimately indigenous. Indigenous peoples readily veer functional items into feasible commodities goods such as indigenous blouses and shawls easily create alien place mates and pillow cases, enabling indigenous peoples to go far (Schneider 80). Schneider asks, does this practice rob peoples of their culture, or simply generate a modernistic kind of survival market culture? In seeking to descry and question Eurocentric imaginings of the world, the discipline of anthropology complicates the right of tourists to judge the commodities of indigenous communities, as it questions the right of a global economy that forces peoples to produce such commodities to drop dead (Schneider 83).In her more gruesome study of organ theft in impoverish communities, Scheper-Hughes similarly demands that consumers understand the implications of neo-cannibalism on an international scale. Rejecting the idea of impoverished peoples as uneducated and gullible informants, Scheper-Hughes questions the meaning of doctors, org an brokers and prestigious anthropologists denying people voice about body-snatching (35, 39). Her research proves that eviscerated bodies do appear in ally and morgues, and verifies the accounts of poor peoples denied as mere inventions by authorities (36, 38).