Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World An Anthropological Odyssey

by Nash, June C.

• ISBN13: 9780759108813
• ISBN10: 0759108811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-21
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

In this book, distinguished anthropologist June C. Nash shows 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 practices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Having 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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: An Anthropological Odyssey: From Structural Functionalism to Activism	p. 1
Paradigms and Postures
When Isms Become Wasms: Paradigms Lost and Regained	p. 15
The Notion of the Limited Good and the Specter of the Unlimited Good	p. 35
Women in Between: Globalization and the New Enlightenment	p. 55
Reflections in the Ethnographic Mirror
Multiple Perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and Nat Worship	p. 77
The Limits of Naivete in Anthropological Fieldwork: The 1954 U.S.-Instigated Coup in Guatemala	p. 105
Engagement in Social Movements Today
Social Movements in Global Circuits	p. 137
Interpreting Social Movements: Bolivian Resistance to Economic Conditions Imposed by the IMF	p. 165
The Hobbesian World of Terror and Violence
The Export of Militarization: Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Periphery	p. 199
At Home with the Military-Industrial Complex	p. 231
References	p. 255
Index	p. 277
About the Author	p. 291
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