Globalization and change in fifteen cultures : born in one world, living in another / George Spindler and Janice E. Stockard, [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spindler, George.

Stockard, Janice E.

Series:

Case studies in cultural anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and globalization--Case studies.

Culture and globalization.

Ethnology--Case studies.

Ethnology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, 2007.

Summary:

The original articles presented in this anthology reflect a world changed by globalization, and an anthropology committed to documenting the effects of the vast cultural flows of people, information, goods, and technology, now in motion the world over. The editors write an introduction to the topic of cultural change, and each of the fifteen anthropologists in the anthology take students on a return visit to their original field sites, asking questions for a new era and writing of peoples to some extent familiar, but at the same time changed, transformed by global forces. A "Fieldwork Bio" on the researcher begins each chapter, and together they document four main dimensions in culture change including: challenges to identity and power; changing gender hierarchies; new patterns of migration and mobility; and the effects of economic change and modernization.

Contents:

Part I Challenges to Identity and Power 1

Chapter 1 Continuity and Change in Aztec Culture: From Imperial Lords to Royal Subjects / Frances F. Berdan 1

Setting the Stage: Some Themes 2

The Aztec Empire on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest 2

Imperial Strategies 3

Political and Territorial Organization: the Altepetl 4

Social Stratification 5

Commerce 6

Religion 7

The Stage Is Set 8

New Lords of the Land 8

Aztecs to Nahuas: Continuity and Change in the New Order 9

Demographic Disaster 9

The Altepetl and Cultural Identity 10

Social Stratification: Disintegration Over Time 11

Occupations and Commerce 13

Taking Advantage of New Things and Ideas 15

Religious Syncretism 18

Chapter 2 Change in the Lives of a Brazilian Indigenous People: To Pluck Eyelashes (or Not?) among the Canela / William Crocker, Jean Crocker 24

The Canela Today 28

Some Background to the Current Canela Situation 29

Tracing Culture Change Through Individuals 31

Basket Lifter and her Son, Speechless 32

Hard Bed 35

Anaconda 38

Angelo Carampei 41

Edible Vine 44

Summary: Factors in Culture Change 48

Chapter 3 Cultural Identity in China: The Rising Politics of Ethnic Difference / Dru C. Gladney 53

The Soviet Union as China's Prologue? 54

Nationality in China 57

Han Nationality as Invented National Unity 59

Identity Politics and National Minorities 60

Internal Divisions among the Han Majority 63

Internet Cafes, Discos, and Democratization? 65

Conclusion: National Disunity? 67

Chapter 4 The Vice Lords Today: Sociocultural Change in an African American Street Gang / Lincoln Keiser 73

Part II Change in Gender Hierarchies 97

Chapter 5 Sambia Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change / Gilbert Herdt, Birgitta Stolpe 97

Precolonial Sambia Society 98

Traditional Gender Roles and Initiation 100

Social Hierarchies among the Sambia 102

Marriage and the Traffic in Women 103

Social Change and Resistance 105

Schools and Gender Change 107

Change over the Past Decade 109

Chapter 6 Mothers to Daughters: Social Change and Matrilineal Kinship in a Minangkabau Village / Evelyn Blackwood 117

Minangkabau and Their Houses 120

Reconfiguring Daughters' Desires 123

Education 124

Marriage Rights 125

Models of Domesticity 127

Contradictory Housewives 130

Social Change and Small Houses 132

Households, Demographics, and Migration 132

Residence and Matriliny 133

Daughters Who Leave 134

Daughters' Claims 135

Matriliny in Single-Family Households 137

Husband and Wife Contributions 138

Reconstituting Single-Family Households 139

Chapter 7 The Ju/'Hoansi at the Crossroads: Continuity and Change in the Time of AIDS / Richard B. Lee 144

Four Decades of Change 146

Nyae Nyae: A Struggle for Survival 150

Ju/'Hoansi in the Twenty-First Century: Progress and Poverty 154

Botswana 154

Namibia 155

Regional Developments: From the End of Apartheid to the Coming of AIDS 156

AIDS and the Ju/'Hoansi 156

The Ju/Hoansi's Lower Rates: Macro and Micro Factors 158

Ju/'Hoan Women's Autonomy 159

Forces Driving the Epidemic 161

The Larger Social Framework of AIDS Risk 163

The Tsumkwe Junior Secondary School 164

The Old-Age Pension Affair 165

Craft Buying as Income Generation 166

The Kashipembe Crisis 166

The Wider Nyae Nyae and Dobe Region 167

Conclusion: Back from the Brink? 168

Chapter 8 From Field to Factory and Beyond: New Strategies for New Realities in a Yucatecan Village / Cindy L. Hull 172

Theoretical Perspective 173

Yucatan and the World System: Historical Perspective 174

Yucatan and the Modern World System 179

Yaxbe 179

1990s-The Fall of the Ejido: New Strategies for New Realities 181

Economic Diversification in the Village 182

Agriculture 182

Nonagricultural Occupations 183

Women and Income Production Within the Home 184

Women and Income Production Outside of the Home 186

Women in Solidarity: The Horchateras 187

Commuting as Economic Strategy 190

Factory Jobs 191

Professional Occupations 191

Other Occupations 192

Men and Commuting 192

Women and Commuting 193

Migration as Economic Strategy 193

Conclusion: The Impact of Globalization 195

Part III New Patterns of Migration and Mobility 199

Chapter 9 The Yolmo People of Melemchi, Nepal: Change and Continuity / Naomi H. Bishop 199

Melemchi: A Yolmo Temple-Village 200

The Village 200

Traditional Subsistence Strategies 201

Social and Political Organization 204

Religion and Worldview 204

Moving into the Twenty-First Century: 1971-2000 206

Changes in the Subsistence System 206

Changes in Circular Migration 207

Incorporation into the Langtang National Park 209

A Primary School in Melemchi 212

Melemchi in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges of the Future 214

The Changing Demography of Melemchi 215

Dependence on External Remittance 217

Viability of the Village Subsistence System 217

Maintaining Cultural Knowledge 219

Chapter 10 The Mardu Aborigines: On the Road to Somewhere / Robert Tonkinson 225

Introducing the Mardu Aborigines 225

Fieldwork among the Mardu 227

Conceptualizing Social Change and the Challenge to Analysis 229

The Mardu in a Wider Australian Context 232

Early Contacts with Europeans: Defining the "Whitefella" 235

The Mission and Its Aftermath: From Masters of the Desert to Children of the Devil 238

"Self-management": The Perils of Well-Meaning Government Policy 241

On Mobility, Dispersal, and Aggregation 243

The Mardu Today: On the Road to Somewhere 245

Chapter 11 From Local "Tribe" to Transnational Arab: The "New" Rashaayda Bedouin of Sudan / William C. Young 256

Geographical and Historical Background 259

The History of "Tribal" Affiliations in Eastern Sudan 262

The Economic Internationalization of Eastern Sudan 262

International Politics and the Unstable National Border Between Sudan and Eritrea 265

The War in Eritrea 266

The War in Sudan 268

The Bani Rashiid in Saudi Arabia 272

The Bani Rashiid Campaign to Rework Genealogies and History 274

Chapter 12 Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction: Lessons from Research on Transnational Migration / Leo R. Chavez 283

Why is Transnational Migration Important for Anthropologists? 285

A Love-Hate Relationship with Immigrants 287

Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction 292

Immigration and Culture Change 297

Part IV Effects of Economic Change and Modernization 304

Chapter 13 Scottish Crofters: Narratives of Change among Small Landholders in Scotland / Susan Parman 304

Doing Fieldwork 308

Narratives about Crofting 309

Narratives about Speaking Gaelic 315

Narratives about the Free Church 319

Narratives of Home and Exile 323

Summary of Changes 326

Chapter 14 A Village in Greece: Vasilika Then and Now / Ernestine Friedl 334

Migration and the Fates of Migrants 337

Gender Roles 345

Additional Works on Vasilika 350

Chapter 15 Through Japanese Eyes: Culture Change in a Midwestern Town / Toshiyuki Sano, Mariko Fujita 351

Changing Eyes-From Analogue to Digital 352

Two Views of Downtown and the Public Square 353

A Tranquil Place and an Intense Site 358

Changes in Farming Practice 361

A Changing Ethnic and Economic Map 366

The Transformation of the Senior Center 367.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0534636489

OCLC:

70116391