Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey /

Main Author: Nash, June C., 1927-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007.
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245 1 |a Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world :  |b an anthropological odyssey /  |c June C. Nash. 
260 1 |a Lanham, MD :  |b AltaMira Press,  |c c2007. 
300 1 |a xi, 292 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-275) and index. 
505 1 |a Introduction : an anthropological odyssey : from structural functionalism to activism -- 1. When isms become wasms : paradigms lost and regained -- 2. The notion of the limited good and the specter of the unlimited good -- 3. Women in between : globalization and the new enlightenment -- 4. Multiple perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and nat worship -- 5. The limits of naïveté in anthropological fieldwork : the 1954 U.S.-instigated coup in Guatemala -- 6. Social movements in global circuits -- 7. Interpreting social movements : Bolivian resistance to economic conditions imposed by the IMF -- 8. The export of militarization : counterinsurgency warfare in the periphery -- 9. At home with the military-industrial complex. 
650 1 |a Ethnology  |x Research 
650 1 |a Ethnology  |x Fieldwork 
650 1 |a Ethnology  |x Methodology 
650 1 |a Culture and globalization 
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