| Description |
338 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Globalization and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure Introduction / Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere -- Circassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus / Seteney Shami -- Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China, 1900-1945 / Prasenjit Duara -- The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project / Mamadou Diouf -- Enforcing the Human Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens in the Era of Maastricht: Some Reflections on the Importance of States / Jacqueline Bhabha -- Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross-Border Commodity Networks / Norman Long and Magdalena Villarreal -- Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana / Birgit Meyer |
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Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Identity, Expenditure and Sharing in Southwestern Zaire (1984-1997) / Filip De Boeck -- Globalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning: Witchcraft and Spirit Cults in Africa and East Asia / Peter Geschiere -- Time and the Global: Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory / John D. Kelly -- Globalization and Virtuality: Analytical Problems Posed by the Contemporary Transformation of African Societies / Wim van Binsbergen -- Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization / Arjun Appadurai -- Epilogue: On Some Reports from a Free Space / Ulf Hannerz |
| Notes |
"Text was originally published as special issue 29:4 of Development and change, published by Blackwell Publishers on behalf of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Globalization.
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Group identity.
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Ethnicity.
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Nationalism.
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Internationalism.
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International economic relations.
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| Author |
Geschiere, Peter.
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Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21-
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| LC no. |
98052219 |
| ISBN |
0631212388 |
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