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The anthropology of globalization : a reader / edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 1.Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001Description: xii, 498 pISBN:
  • 0631222324 (alk. paper)
  • 0631222332 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 21
LOC classification:
  • GN27 .A673 2001
Partial contents:
Introduction: A World in Motion / Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo -- 1. Notes on the Global Ecumene / Ulf Hannerz -- 2. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy / Arjun Appadurai -- 3. Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson -- 4. Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbados's Off-shore Pink-collar Sector / Carla Freeman -- 5. A Fish Story: Rethinking Globalization on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands / Bill Maurer -- 6. Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism / James Ferguson -- 7. Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism / Roger Rouse -- 8. The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits / Aihwa Ong -- 9. Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities / Joan Gross, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg -- 10. Globalization and Localization / Jonathan Friedman -- 11. Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana / Birgit Meyer -- 12. The Global Traffic in Human Organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 13. Hollywood Iconography: A Warlpiri Reading / Eric Michaels -- 14. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- 15. Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities / Brian Larkin -- 16. Suffering the Winds of Lhasa: Politicized Bodies, Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Humanism in Tibet / Vincanne Adams -- 17. Freeing South Africa: The "Modernization" of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto / Donald L. Donham -- 18. The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Conclusion: The Global Situation / Anna Tsing.
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Introduction: A World in Motion / Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo -- 1. Notes on the Global Ecumene / Ulf Hannerz -- 2. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy / Arjun Appadurai -- 3. Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson -- 4. Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbados's Off-shore Pink-collar Sector / Carla Freeman -- 5. A Fish Story: Rethinking Globalization on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands / Bill Maurer -- 6. Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism / James Ferguson -- 7. Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism / Roger Rouse -- 8. The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits / Aihwa Ong -- 9. Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities / Joan Gross, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg -- 10. Globalization and Localization / Jonathan Friedman -- 11. Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana / Birgit Meyer -- 12. The Global Traffic in Human Organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 13. Hollywood Iconography: A Warlpiri Reading / Eric Michaels -- 14. Mass Media and Transnational Subjectivity in Shanghai: Notes on (Re)Cosmopolitanism in a Chinese Metropolis / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang -- 15. Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities / Brian Larkin -- 16. Suffering the Winds of Lhasa: Politicized Bodies, Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Humanism in Tibet / Vincanne Adams -- 17. Freeing South Africa: The "Modernization" of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto / Donald L. Donham -- 18. The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Conclusion: The Global Situation / Anna Tsing.

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