Causes of movement
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 10-03-15 13:15
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- Consequences of movement
- Health and diease
- Indigenous and Travellers
- Indigenous were infected with chickenpox, smallpox, influenza and emasles
- Travelers were infected with Malaria, Hepatitis A and B and typhoid
- Immunity was the biggest factor, but over the years travelers and the indigenous built up immunity to these dieases
- The Yanomami
- Northern Brazil
- Over 1,00 miners occupy the terriroy illegally
- The Yamomami have little resistence to potential fatal dieases which the miners transmit as well as STD's as cases of **** rise
- In 2009, 500 new caes of malria were found among the population of 16,000
- For culture this means...
- High infant mortality rates and lowered fertility and birth rate
- Disease that strike the young will mean they could die or will be unable to reproduce themselves
- Dependancy on western drugs
- Those who seek help from the west may be disowned from their communties
- Shamans and witches knowledge and power is undermined - so the hierarchies are impacted
- Dieases also strikes at the oldest and wisest members of the society, social knowledge leaves with them as they did, unable for the young to carry on the traditions
- High infant mortality rates and lowered fertility and birth rate
- Indigenous and Travellers
- identity and diaspora
- Cultural hybridity, when more than one culture is blended through one or more people
- Cultural colonialsim, when people move without the intetntion of integrating into the the new culture, maintain their original one
- It can also be the asymmetrical influence of one culture over another e.g. the spread of capitalism, the dominant culture suppresses and marginalizes minor cultures
- Barthes found that people have merged their language to create a new one, such as Singlish
- Commodification in cultural terms means some play up to the stereotype for economic gain
- But also the selling of national, historical or cultural sites like Uluru
- Health and diease
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