The Anthropology of Globalization A Reader

by Inda, Jonathan Xavier; Rosaldo, Renato

• ISBN13: 9781405136136
• ISBN10: 1405136138
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-08
• Publisher: 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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