Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 296 pages
- Published by: Bergin & Garvey Paperback June 30, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0897897404
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0897897402
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
“this useful enyclopedia on "this frontier subject" of anthropology and globalization addresses theories of globalization and their antecedents and considers the changing context of anthropological practice.Care has gone into crafting a book that is accessible to undergraduates but also valuable to more advanced scholars. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”–
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Product 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 looks at 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.
Reader ReviewsI'm not sure why anyone would rate this book poorly, or say that it is too complicated a read. I am an anthropologist who has read many texts on globalization and this book is as straightforward and contemporaneous as it gets. Lewellen has created a great synthesis of the field of global research with historical foundations that are clear. If you want to get grounded in the subject of globalization, and the problems and issues that researchers face, start here. Yes, it is not a fun read, but the field is in need of a text like this to be able to explain in undergraduate terminolgy, the intricacies of global economic processes.
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