Commodity chains and globalization

NPR's Planet Money did an interesting series on T-Shirts, to highlight the interconnections of people and objects found in the global economy known as a "commodity chain."  This is one example of what anthropologists have come to call a "global assemblage"- political, economic, and social links between people across the world that make the notion of a "culture" bounded by geographic and cultural barriers problematic to say the least.

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