Anthropology › Section J · Human migration › Topic J.2
Early global movements and cultural hybridity
Long before smartphones and container ships, empires, trade and forced migration moved people and ideas across oceans. Those movements produced new mixed cultures, and the concepts anthropologists use for them, diaspora, transnationalism and hybridity, help explain the connected world we live in now.
In this topic
- Colonialism as an early global force
- European expansion after 1492
- The transatlantic slave trade
- Creolisation and syncretism
- After empire: postcolonialism
- Globalisation as flows: Appadurai's scapes
- Diaspora and transnationalism
- Hybridity and its critics
- Worked example: diaspora, transnationalism or hybridity?
- Worked example: tracing the scapes
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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