Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World: An Anthropological Odyssey

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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. Dedication Contents Preface Introduction: An Anthropological Odyssey: From Structural Functionalism to Activism Part I: Paradigms and Postures 1 When Isms Become Wasms: Paradigms Lost and Regilincd 2 The Notion of the Limited Good and the Specter of the Unlimited Good 3 Women in Between: Globalization and the New Enlightenment Part II: Reflections in the Ethnographic Mirror 4 Multiple Perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and Nat Worship 5 The Limits of Naïveté in Anthropological Fieldwork: The 1954 US.-Instigated Coup in Guatemala Part III: Engagement in Social Movements Today 6 Social Movements in Global Circuits 7 interpreting Social Movements: Bolivian Resistance to Economic Conditions Imposed by the IMF Part IV: The Hobbesian World Terror and Violence 8 The Export of Militarization : Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Periphery 9 At Home with the Military-Industrial Complex References Index About the Author