The Anthropology of Globalization focuses simultaneously on the large-scale processes through which various cultures are becoming increasingly interconnected, and on the ways that people around the world - from Africa and Asia to the Caribbean and North America - mediate these processes in culturally specific ways.
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"This volume represents a timely and topical contribution to a comparatively new field of anthropology which offers insights and critical perspectives on that pervasive set of processes known as 'globalisation'...this is a significant collection on a complex set of interrelated subjects. It will repay a sustained and critical reading and I recommend it to those interested in the possibilities and challenges for contemporary ethnography and anthropology more generally." The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
"Offers an excellent introduction to globalization, with many fine and thought-provoking texts." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"This landmark collection marks the moment when the globalization of anthropology meets the anthropology of globalization. The mix of theory and vivid examples makes it a major teaching resource as well as a manifesto for new debates about culture, meaning, and connectivity." Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago
"This book represents an exciting intellectual project." Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City 2001
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Over the last decade globalization has captured the public and academic imagination. The term globalization describes a condition in which the rapid flow of capital, people, goods, images, and ideologies across national boundaries continuously draws more of the world into webs of interconnections -- thereby compressing our sense of time and space and making the world feel smaller. The Anthropology of Globalization provides an exciting introduction to this world of flows and interconnections.
What sets this volume apart is its ethnographic focus. The Anthropology of Globalization focuses simultaneously on the large-scale processes through which various cultures are becoming increasingly interconnected and on the ways that people around the world -- from Africa and Asia to the Caribbean and North America -- mediate these processes in culturally specific ways. In other words, these articles highlight the conjunctural and situated character of globalization.
Editors Inda & Rosaldo have collected some of the finest work on globalization published in English over the past decade and have provided readers with a rich introduction to the subject, additional section introductions, and recommendations for further readings.
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Dr. Inda earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. His research areas include the anthropology of globalization; migrant and diasporic cultures; governmentality and life politics; the critical study of race, science, and medicine; and Latino populations in the United States. Among his publications are Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell 2006) and the edited volumes Race, Identity, and Citizenship (Wiley-Blackwell 1999), Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics (Wiley-Blackwell 2005), and The Anthropology of Globalization, 2nd Edition (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). Dr. Inda is currently Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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I disagree with the other reviewers. The study of anthropology often creates more questions than answers--that is why the field intrigues me. As for the reviewer wanting a simpler treatment of the subject... Fine in theory, but globalization is COMPLEX. The introduction of the book offers some themes to observe and asserts that 1) Globalization is not only about passive receivers of global imperialism. 2) Global ideas and products flow in many ways (not just core to the periphery). 3) Many circuits of globalization circumvent the west (or global north). The subsequent chapters then follow these threads.
I come from a critical background (i.e. that globalization is evil), but the examples in the book show that not all aspects of globalization are troubling. As for Appadurai and invention of words... keep giving the chapter another read. The man is simply (complexly?) a beautiful writer.
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Disappointing,
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This review is from: The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology) (Paperback)
Characteristic of this reader is the bothersome overlap of topics. It dramatically fails to give insight in theories of globalization itself and the link between these theories and global reality. After studying this reader even experienced students of Anthropology will give anything for something that is less grandiloquent and more useful because of it's simplicity.
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