imsukuhum kulhum
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Slide notes to accompany a lecture based on my 2010 article.TRANSCRIPT
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Imsukuhum Kulhum!Kids, Commodities and Transnational Identities
Mark Allen Peterson, PhD
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Simulacra:
Identical copies for which there is no original
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Pokemon in Cairo
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Schools as Sites
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American School in Cairo
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Commodities as Class Markers
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A sign is something that stands for something else in some respect to someone
something Signifier; Sign vehicle
something else Signified; Object
in some respect Interpretant
someone Interpreter
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Signifying Relationships(interpretants)
Icon Signifying something by resembling it
IndexSignifying something by being connectedto it
Symbol
Signification according to an arbitrary code
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Indexicality
1. Commodities index their place of origin
2. Places of origin are hierarchically organized
3. Language serves as sign-vehicle4. Labor, use and aesthetic values
are subordinated to status values to some (but not all) interpreters.
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Pokemon in all its forms is acquisition about acquisition…
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Gotta Catch ‘em All
VALUE EXPATRIATES EGYPTIANS
Labor Value Bringing the cards from the U.S.
Getting the cards from the U.S. or Europe
Use Value Play Play
Exchange Value
Card tradingCard trading
Market Value$3/packet U.S.Collector Values
$9/packet EgyptCollector Values
Signifying Value
Home, “cool,” resistance
Foreign, status, wealth
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Aline: Card collecting as identity management
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Distinctions
“Languages”/ArabicForeign/Local
Expensive/Cheap
“Tastes … are asserted purely negatively, by the refusal of other tastes.”
-- Pierre Bourdieu
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The new children’s television
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High quality foreign pirate copies
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Low quality local pirate copies
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The Modern Language School
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Being a modern Arab child…
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Collecting and playing Tazu got “out of hand”
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Pokemon may be morally dangerous
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Potentially dangerous characters
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For Yasseen’s mother, the skills outweigh the risks
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For Dr. Reem, moral concerns must be paramount…
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Semiosis: IndexicalityPokemon artifacts point to one another
“simulacra”
Pokemon artifacts point to their sources “Global”/“Cosmopolitan” “American”
Pokemon artifacts point to their cost Class Status/”taste”
In so pointing, they become subject to the symbolic meanings associated with these referents
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Reference
Peterson, Mark Allen. 2010. Isukuhum Kulhum! Modernity and Morality in Egyptian Children’s Consumption” Journal of Consumer Culture 19(2): 233-253.