Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World

An Anthropological Odyssey

AvJune C. Nash

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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In this book distinguished anthropologist June Nash demonstrates 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 pratices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Havin 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-28
Mått:160 x 239 x 14 mm
Vikt:596 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:AltaMira Press
ISBN:9780759108806

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

June C. Nash is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, Graduate Center and City College. She is the author of In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Mayan Community; We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Mining Communities; and a family autobiography with Juan Rojas, I Spent My Life in the Mines. As a result of her engagement with feminist and working class movements, she has also co-edited with Helen Safa Sex and Class in Latin America, and Women and Change in Latin America; with M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly, Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor; and authored From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles.

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For the past fifty years June Nash has been consistently five or ten years ahead of her time. The topics on which she has made ground breaking interventions—feminist theory, local-global relations, ethnography of powerful institutions, consciousness and resistance, social movements, indigenous empowerment, militarization and empire, ethics and politics of research— document anthropology's major preoccupations since the 1950s. This volume offers a comprehensive record of Nash's achievements confirms her place as one of the most influential and accomplished anthropologists of our times. We are well advised to read closely, to appreciate how she has shaped our field, and to glean some clues about what is coming next.

Innehållsförteckning

4 Part I: Paradigms and Postures5 When Isms Become Wasms: Paradigms Lost and Regained6 The Notion of the Limited Good and the Specter of the Unlimited Good7 Women in Between: Globalization and the New Enlightenment8 Part II: Reflections in the Ethnographic Mirror9 Multiple Perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and Nat Worship10 Part III: Engagement in Social Movements Today11 Social Movements in Global Circuits12 Part IV: The Hobbesian World of Terror and Violence13 The Export of Militarization: Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Periphery14 At Home with the Military-Industrial Complex15 The Limits of Naivete in Anthropological Fieldwork: The 1954 U.S. Instigated Coup in Guatemala15 Interpreting Social Movements: Bolivian Resistance to Economic Conditions Imposed by the IMF