Global Economic Connections, look through your home and find another familiar yet unfamiliar object. Where was this object made? How did it make its way into your home? What kind of impact has this object had on your and other peoples lives?

For this week’s discussion I want you to read The social life of things Download The social life of things .The anthropologist Kenneth Guest used this concept and developed a much loved class room activity called “Making a can of coke unfamiliar”. By asking specific questions about this product we can reveal the economic and social relationships that that enable producing and consuming this product locally and globally as well as the effects that making this product has on all involved participants and their environments, families, etc. For this exercise, look through your home and find another familiar yet unfamiliar object. Where was this object made? How did it make its way into your home? What kind of impact has this object had on your and other peoples lives? You can answer the questions about your product based on some brief internet research. Examples include Hersheys and Godiva chocolate, Dole bananas, Nike tennis shoes, and Levis blue jeans and many more. I look forward to seeing what you come up with! ‘

Your post

1.Post a photo of this object and its unfamiliar history.

2. Describe the item and where it was made.

3. What kind of impact does the item have on your life?

4. What about the people who made it?