Ted C. Lewellen

The Anthropology of Globalization (eBook, PDF)

Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 over the world, Lewellen examines the ways that globalization impacts migrants and stay-at-homes, peasants and tribal peoples, men and women. A crucial theme is that the global/local nexus is one of unpredictable interaction and creative adaptation, not of top-down determinism. Theoretically, globalization studies have become the focal point for the convergence of interpretive anthropology, critical anthropology, postmodernism, and poststructuralism, which are combined with a tough empiricism. For the casual reader or the classroom, this work draws together the ethnographic studies and cutting-edge theories that comprise the anthropology of globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313389757
• Artikelnr.: 37839402

Autorenporträt

TED C. LEWELLEN is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Richmond.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Bibliography Index