Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey / June C. Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, June C., 1927-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Research.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology--Methodology.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2007]

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.

Contents:

When isms become wasms : paradigms lost and regained

The notion of the limited good and the specter of the unlimited good

Women in between : globalization and the new enlightenment

Multiple perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and nat worship

The limits of naïveté in anthropological fieldwork : the 1954 U.S.-instigated coup in Guatemala

Social movements in global circuits

Interpreting social movements : Bolivian resistance to economic conditions imposed by the IMF

The export of militarization : counterinsurgency warfare in the periphery

At home with the military-industrial complex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index.

ISBN:

0759108803

0759108811

OCLC:

70407779

Publisher Number:

9780759108806

9780759108813