The Anthropology of Globalization
A Reader
Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
2. Auflage Juli 2007
496 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
List of Contributors.
Overture: Thinking the Global.
Part I: Itinerant Capital.
Part II: Mobile Subjects.
Part III: Roving Commodities.
Part IV: Traveling Media.
Part V: Nomadic Ideologies.
Index.
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
Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. Among his publications are Targeting Immigrants:
Government, Technology, and Ethics (Blackwell, 2006) and the
edited volumes Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault,
Governmentality, and Life Politics (Blackwell, 2005) and
Race, Identity, and Citizenship (Blackwell, 1999).
Renato Rosaldo is Professor of Anthropology at New York
University and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences
Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of Culture and
Truth (1989) and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974
(1980), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.