The Anthropology of Globalization A Reader
by Inda, Jonathan Xavier; Rosaldo, RenatoEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-08-27
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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
Author Biography
Jonathan Xavier Inda is Associate Professor in the 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.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Overture: Thinking the Global | |
| Tracking Global Flows | |
| Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy | |
| The Global Situation | |
| Itinerant Capital:.Introduction | |
| Notes on Mayan Youth and Rural Industrialization in Guatemala | |
| Thai Love Thai: Financing Emotion in Post-crash Thailand | |
| Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks | |
| Mobile Subjects:.Introduction | |
| Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese | |
| Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity | |
| Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France | |
| Roving Commodities:.Introduction | |
| Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow | |
| Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism | |
| Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA | |
| Traveling Media:.Introduction | |
| Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World | |
| Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood, and Global Media | |
| The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements | |
| Nomadic Ideologies:.Introduction | |
| The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface | |
| Disorderly Development: Globalization and the Idea of "Culture" | |
| Politico-moral Transactions in Indian AIDS Service: Confidentiality, Rights, and New Modalities of Governance | |
| Index | |
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