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Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology Ser.: Anthropology of Globalization : A Reader by Renato Rosaldo (2007, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10140513612X
ISBN-139781405136129
eBay Product ID (ePID)26038872132
Product Key Features
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAnthropology of Globalization : a Reader
SubjectGlobalization, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year2007
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorRenato Rosaldo
SeriesWiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight29.7 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2006-037871
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews& "The Anthropology of Globalization, 2nd Edition is a treasury of the vast store of new and exciting work being done on this theme. It will be an invaluable text for classes on globalization in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, literature, ethnic studies, and international studies. & " Akhil Gupta, UCLA"This volume brings together some of the most insightful anthropological writing on globalization, and so achieves the miracle of making sense of the innovations, countervailing tendencies and dilemmas that are now part of the study of culture in a changing world." Ronald Niezen, McGill University, "The Anthropology of Globalization, 2nd Edition is a treasury of the vast store of new and exciting work being done on this theme. It will be an invaluable text for classes on globalization in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, literature, ethnic studies, and international studies." Akhil Gupta, UCLA "This volume brings together some of the most insightful anthropological writing on globalization, and so achieves the miracle of making sense of the innovations, countervailing tendencies and dilemmas that are now part of the study of culture in a changing world." Ronald Niezen, McGill University, "The Anthropology of Globalization, 2nd Edition is a treasury of the vast store of new and exciting work being done on this theme. It will be an invaluable text for classes on globalization in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, literature, ethnic studies, and international studies. " Akhil Gupta, UCLA "This volume brings together some of the most insightful anthropological writing on globalization, and so achieves the miracle of making sense of the innovations, countervailing tendencies and dilemmas that are now part of the study of culture in a changing world." Ronald Niezen, McGill University, " The Anthropology of Globalization, 2nd Edition is a treasury of the vast store of new and exciting work being done on this theme. It will be an invaluable text for classes on globalization in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, literature, ethnic studies, and international studies." Akhil Gupta, UCLA "This volume brings together some of the most insightful anthropological writing on globalization, and so achieves the miracle of making sense of the innovations, countervailing tendencies and dilemmas that are now part of the study of culture in a changing world." Ronald Niezen, McGill University
Series Volume Number10
Dewey Decimal306
Table Of ContentList of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Overture: Thinking the Global 1 1 Tracking Global Flows 3 Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo 2 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 47 Arjun Appadurai 3 The Global Situation 66 Anna Tsing Part I Itinerant Capital 99 Introduction 99 4 Notes on Mayan Youth and Rural Industrialization in Guatemala 101 Linda Green 5 Thai Love Thai: Financing Emotion in Post-crash Thailand 121 Alan Klima 6 Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks 137 Karen Ho Part II Mobile Subjects 165 Introduction 165 7 Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese 167 Aihwa Ong 8 Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity 184 Katherine Pratt Ewing 9 Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France 212 Didier Fassin Part III Roving Commodities 235 Introduction 235 10 Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow 237 Melissa L. Caldwell 11 Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism 254 Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 12 Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA 277 Andrew Lakoff Part IV Traveling Media 301 Introduction 301 13 Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World 303 Tom Boellstorff 14 Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood, and Global Media 334 Brian Larkin 15 The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements 352 Jeffrey S. Juris Part V Nomadic Ideologies 371 Introduction 371 16 The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface 373 Sally Engle Merry and Rachel E. Stern 17 Disorderly Development: Globalization and the Idea of ''Culture'' in the Kalahari 403 Rene´e Sylvain 18 Politico-moral Transactions in Indian AIDS Service: Confidentiality, Rights, and New Modalities of Governance 433 Kavita Misra Index 468
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe Anthropology of Globalization provides an exciting introduction to global change, focusing simultaneously on the large-scale processes through which various cultures are becoming increasingly interconnected, and on the ways that people around the world mediate these processes in culturally specific ways. This new edition also addresses the limits of global mobility and connection.Inda and Rosaldo have assembled some of the finest and newest work on globalization published in English by both established and emerging anthropologists, including Arjun Appadurai, Anna Tsing, Aihwa Ong, Didier Fassin, Sally Engle Merry, Tom Boellstorff, Karen Ho, and Andrew Lakoff. Beginning with a revised contribution by the editors, this second edition also includes new readings, helpful section introductions, and recommendations for further reading. It provides readers with a valuable resource on local and global processes that both promote and constrain movement and linkage., Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade's finest work on globalization, focusing on the increasing interconnectedness of people around the world, and the culturally specific ways in which these connections are mediated. Provides a rich introduction to the subject Grounds the study of globalization ethnographically by locating global processes in everyday practice Addresses the global flow of capital, people, commodities, media, and ideologies Offers extensive geographic coverage: from Africa and Asia to the Caribbean, Europe, and North America Updated edition includes new selections, section introductions, and recommendations for further reading, The Anthropology of Globalization provides an exciting introduction to global change, focusing simultaneously on the large-scale processes through which various cultures are becoming increasingly interconnected, and on the ways that people around the world mediate these processes in culturally specific ways. This new edition also addresses the limits of global mobility and connection. Inda and Rosaldo have assembled some of the finest and newest work on globalization published in English by both established and emerging anthropologists, including Arjun Appadurai, Anna Tsing, Aihwa Ong, Didier Fassin, Sally Engle Merry, Tom Boellstorff, Karen Ho, and Andrew Lakoff. Beginning with a revised contribution by the editors, this second edition also includes new readings, helpful section introductions, and recommendations for further reading. Itprovides readers with a valuable resource on local and global processes that both promote and constrain movement and linkage., Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade s finest work on globalization, focusing on the increasing interconnectedness of people around the world, and the culturally specific ways in which these connections are mediated.
LC Classification NumberGN27
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