The Anthropology of Globalization
A Reader
Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
2. Edition July 2007
496 Pages, 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
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
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.
