Modernities, class, and the contradictions of globalization : the anthropology of global systems / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Kajsa Ekholm, 1939-

Contributor:

Friedman, Jonathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Culture and globalization.

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

vi, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2008]

Contents:

Part I Other Modernities? Resistance, Continuities, and Transformations 25

1 From Religion to Magic / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 29

2 Myth, History, and Political Identity / Jonathan Friedman 89

3 Will the Real Hawaiian Please Stand? Anthropologists and Natives in the Global Struggle for Identity / Jonathan Friedman 109

4 Global Complexity and the Simplicity of Everyday Life / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman 139

Part II Other Modernities? Globalization, the State, and Violence 175

5 State Classes, the Logic of Rentier Power, and Social Disintegration: Global Parameters and Local Structures of the Decline of the Congo / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 179

6 Social Movements and the Struggle against Evil / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman 213

7 The Implosion of Modernity: A New Tribalism / Jonathan Friedman 239

Part III Globalization as Representation and Reality 263

8 The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush / Jonathan Friedman 265

9 Indigenous Struggles and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / Jonathan Friedman 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780759111127

075911112X

OCLC:

166391284