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Anthropology Debates

  • Abeles, Marc. 2006. Globalization, Power and Survival: An Anthropological Perspective. Anthropological Quarterly 79(3).
  • Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
  • ---------------------. Fear of Small Numbers: Essay on the Geography of Fear, 2006.
  • Biehl, João, Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman. “Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity.” In Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, pp.1-23.
  • Collier, Stephen and Aihwa Ong. “Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems.” In Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen Collier). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, pp.3-22.
  • Comaroffs, eds. 2002. Millenial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism.
  • Cooper, Frederick. 2001. "What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective," African Affairs 101: 189-213.
  • Coronil, Fernando. 2000. Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism:Speculations  on Capitalism’s Nature. Public Culture12(2): 351–374.
  • Escobar, Arturo. 2001. Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization. Political Geography 20 (2001) 139–174.
  • Friedman, Jonathan. 2003. Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization: The Transformations of Violence. in Friedman, ed., Globalization, The State, and Violence. Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Geertz, Clifford. “The World in Pieces: Culture and Politics at the End of the Century.” Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 218-263.
  • Graeber, David. 2002. "The Anthropology of Globalization," American Anthropologist 104 (4).
  • Gupta and Ferg. 2002. Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity and the Politics of Difference. in Inda and Rosaldo, eds. The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Blackwell.
  • Hannerz, Ulf. “Notes on the Global Ecumene.” Public Culture, 1989, 1(2): 66-75.
  • Kearney, Michael. 1995. The Local And The Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism, Annual Rev of Anthro 24, pp 547-565.
  • Mintz, Sidney. 1977. The So-called World System. Dialectical Anthropology 2(4).
  • -----------------. 1998. The Localization of Anthropological Practice. Critique of Anthropology 18(2): 117-133.
  • Rabinow, Paul. Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp.1-11, 33-50.
  • Turner, Terence. 2003. "Class Projects, Social Consciousness, and the Contradictions of 'Globalization," In Friedman, ed., Globalization, the State and Violence.
  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2003. "A Fragmented Globality," in Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. Palgrave.
  • Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without a History.

Rethinking Anthropology Methods

  • Burawoy, Michael. 2001. “Manufacturing the Global”. Ethnography 2 (2), pp. 147-159
  • Gupta and Ferguson, eds. 1997. Anthropological Locations. Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science.
  • Marcus, George. 1995 "Ethnography in/of the World System: the Emergence of Multi-sited Ethnography." Annual Review of Anthropology 24, pp. 95-117
  • Passaro, J. 1997. “’You Can’t Take the Subway to the Field!’: “Village” Epistemologies in the Global Village. In Anthropological Locations. Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, pp. 147-163
  • Stoller, Paul. 1997. “Globalizing Method: The Problems of Doing Ethnography in Transnational Spaces”. Anthropology and Humanism 22 (1), pp. 81-94.
  • Strathern, Marilyn. 2004. Commons & Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability, & the Flow of Knowledge. Sean Kingston Publishing, 2004.

 

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