The anthropology of globalization : cultural anthropology enters the 21st century

Author(s)

• Lewellen, Ted C.

Bibliographic Information

The anthropology of globalization : cultural anthropology enters the 21st century

Ted C. Lewellen

Bergin & Garvey, 2002

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780897897389

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780897897402

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BA58404574
• ISBN:
  • 0897897382
  • 9780897897402
• LCCN: 2001052793
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 282 p.
• Size: 24 cm