Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey

Nash, June C. 1927- (Author).

Summary: "In this book, distinguished anthropologist June C. Nash shows how ethnography can illuminate a wide array of global problems. She describes encounters with an urban U.S. community undergoing de-industrialization, with Mandalay rice cultivators accommodating to post-World War II independence through animistic practices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Having worked in a great variety of cultural settings around the world, Nash challenges us to expand our anthropological horizons and to think about local problems in a global manner."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN: 0759108811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0759108803 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780759108813 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780759108806 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xi, 292 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : an anthropological odyssey : from structural functionalism to activism -- 1. When isms become wasms : paradigms lost and regained -- 2. The notion of the limited good and the specter of the unlimited good -- 3. Women in between : globalization and the new enlightenment -- 4. Multiple perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and Nat worship -- 5. The limits of naivete in anthropological fieldwork : the 1954 U.S.-instigated coup in Guatemala -- 6. Social movements in global circuits -- 7. Interpreting social movements : Bolivian resistance to economic conditions imposed by the IMF -- 8. The export of militarization : counterinsurgency warfare in the periphery -- 9. At home with the military-industrial complex.