Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization

Kajsa Ekholm Friedman is professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Lund University, Sweden. Jonathan Friedman is directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, and professor of social anthropology at Lund University.

Weaving together a provocative and innovative approach to the global process of social reproduction, Kajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan Friedman move beyond glib and fashionable globalization-speak and identity-talk. In a series of broad-ranging essays, they challenge us to rethink the logic of modernity and issues of political economy, class, cultural authenticity, and representation.

• IntroductionPart I. Other Modernities? Resistance, Continuities, and Transformations1. From Religion to Magic2. Myth, History, and Political Identity3. Will the Real Hawaiian Please Stand? Anthropologists and Natives in the Global Struggle for Identity4. Global Complexity and the Simplicity of Everyday Life5. State Classes, the Logic of Rentier Power, and Social Disintegration: Global Parameters and Local Structures of the Decline of the CongoPart II. Other Modernities? Globalization, the State, and Violence6. The Struggle against Evil7. The Implosion of Modernity: A New TribalismPart III. Globalization as Representation and Reality8. The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush9. Indigenous Struggles and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie