Anthropology of Globalization Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century

Name: Anthropology of Globalization Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9780897897402

ISBN-10: 0897897404

ISBN-13: 9780897897402

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ted C. Lewellen

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Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. "Globalization" refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which tended to assume a bird's-eye perspective, globalization offers a down-and-dirty, ground-up approach in which ethnographic research is not marginal but essential. Through multiple examples, selected from the latest ethnographic research from all…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 1.034



Preface



Introduction: Who Is Alma?



Globalizing Anthropology



Slouching Toward Globalization



The Anthropology of Globalization



Development, Devolution, and Discourse



Constructing Identity



Globalization and Migration



Migration: People on the Move



Transnationalism: Living Across Borders



Diaspora: Yearning for Home



Refugees: The Anthropology of Forced Migration



Global/Local



Globalization from the Ground Up



Tribal Cultures: No Longer Victims



Peasants: Survivors in a Global World



Afterthoughts, by Way of Conclusions


Notes


Bibliography


Index