Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD :
AltaMira Press,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.