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In nine pages this paper examines the cultural significance of the Indian sari and how it symbolizes the traditions of a particular region and also a woman’s status in society. Six sources are listed in the bibliography.
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anthropologists and ethnographers have revised the definition of culture to reflect its many influences, describing it now as "a more porous array of intersections where distinct processes crisscross from within
and beyond its borders" (Rosaldo, 1993, p. 20). Culture is more than a hodgepodge of traditions, customs, and rituals; it must continue to evolve to include other dominant cultural
preferences while still maintaining its unique distinction. Rapid globalization as the result of constantly changing technology has significantly altered the world and perceptions of it. The culture associated
with a particular country has therefore become as much about how it is perceived externally than as how it is perpetuated by the people who define it. According to the
late philosopher Edward Said, Western concepts of Asian cultures are distorted by what he described as the "notion of orientalism" (Rosaldo, 1993, p. 42). What he meant was that
Western attitudes of China, Japan, and India, are defined by very narrow parameters that are based upon their views of what is meant by the culture of the Orient (Rosaldo,
1993). These attitudes collectively conceptualize this area as remaining unchanged by time and unaffected by technological and economic advancement (Rosaldo, 2003). Said argued that this enabled the West
to use this part of the world as "a benchmark" to measure its own progress while at the same time emphasize the differences between the perceived backwardness of the East
and the modernization of the West as a justification for imperialism (Rosaldo, 1993, p. 42). Anthropologists have begun focusing more on
regional attire and how it is interpreted from cross-cultural perspectives to determine how stereotypes and prejudices are transferred from one generation to the next. For example, the West typically
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