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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lewellen, Ted C., 1940- Anthropology of globalization. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 (OCoLC)604378474 Online version: Lewellen, Ted C., 1940- Anthropology of globalization. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 (OCoLC)606825428 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ted C Lewellen |
| ISBN: | 0897897382 9780897897389 0897897404 9780897897402 |
| OCLC Number: | 48435450 |
| Description: | ix, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Who is Alma? -- Slouching toward globalization -- The anthropology of globalization -- Development, devolution, and discourse -- Constructing identity -- Migration: people on the move -- Transnationalism: living across borders -- Diaspora: yearning for home -- Refugees: the anthropology of forced migration -- Globalization from the ground up -- Tribal cultures: no longer victims -- Peasants: survivors in a global world -- Afterthoughts, by way of conclusions. |
| Responsibility: | Ted C. Lewellen. |
Abstract:
Through multiple examples, selected from the latest ethnographic research from all over the world, Lewellen examines the ways that globalization impacts migrants and stay-at-homes, peasants and tribal peoples, men and women.
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.,."this useful compendium 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."-Choice Read more...
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