Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey
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Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey
AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, c2007
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-275) and index
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Description
In this book distinguished anthropologist June Nash demonstrates how ethnography can illuminate a wide array of global problems. She describes encounters with an urban U.S. community undergoing de-industrialization, with Mandalay rice cultivators accommodating to post-World War II independence through animistic pratices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Havin worked in a great variety of cultural settings around the world, Nash challenges us to expand our anthropological horizons and to think about local problems in a global manner.
Table of Contents
4 Part I: Paradigms and Postures 5 When Isms Become Wasms: Paradigms Lost and Regained 6 The Notion of the Limited Good and the Specter of the Unlimited Good 7 Women in Between: Globalization and the New Enlightenment 8 Part II: Reflections in the Ethnographic Mirror 9 Multiple Perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and Nat Worship 10 Part III: Engagement in Social Movements Today 11 Social Movements in Global Circuits 12 Part IV: The Hobbesian World of Terror and Violence 13 The Export of Militarization: Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Periphery 14 At Home with the Military-Industrial Complex 15 The Limits of Naivete in Anthropological Fieldwork: The 1954 U.S. Instigated Coup in Guatemala 15 Interpreting Social Movements: Bolivian Resistance to Economic Conditions Imposed by the IMF
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