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The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3612-9
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August 2007, ©2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Overture: Thinking the Global:.

1. Tracking Global Flows: Jonathan Xavier Inda (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Renato Rosaldo (New York University).

2. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai (The New School).

3. The Global Situation: Anna Tsing (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Part I: Itinerant Capital:.

Introduction.

4. Notes on Mayan Youth and Rural Industrialization in Guatemala: Linda Green (University of Arizona).

5. Thai Love Thai: Financing Emotion in Post-crash Thailand: Alan Klima (University of California, Davis).

6. Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks: Karen Ho (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities).

Part II: Mobile Subjects:.

Introduction.

7. Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese: Aihwa Ong (University of California, Berkeley).

8. Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity: Katherine Pratt Ewing (Duke University).

9. Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France: Didier Fassin (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

Part III: Roving Commodities:.

Introduction.

10. Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow: Melissa L. Caldwell (University of California, Santa Cruz).

11. Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism: Ariana Hernández-Reguant (University of California, San Diego).

12. Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA: Andrew Lakoff (University of California, San Diego).

Part IV: Traveling Media:.

Introduction.

13. Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World: Tom Boellstorff (University of California, Irvine).

14. Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood, and Global Media: Brian Larkin (Barnard College).

15. The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements: Jeffrey S. Juris (Arizona State University).

Part V: Nomadic Ideologies:.

Introduction.

16. The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface: Sally Engle Merry (New York University) and Rachel E. Stern (University of California, Berkeley).

17. Disorderly Development: Globalization and the Idea of “Culture”: Renée Sylvain (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada).

18. Politico-moral Transactions in Indian AIDS Service: Confidentiality, Rights, and New Modalities of Governance: Kavita Misra (Yale University).

Index

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