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Author Lewellen, Ted

Title The Anthropology of Globalization : Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century
Published Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (294 pages)
Contents Preface; 1 Introduction: Who Is Alma?; Part I: Globalizing Anthropology; Part II: Globalization and Migration; Part III: Global/Local; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Anthropology.
Globalization.
anthropology.
globalism.
Anthropology.
Globalization.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780313389757
0313389756
9786612570469
6612570466