Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey / June C. Nash.

By: Nash, June C, 1927-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007Description: xi, 292 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0759108811 (pbk.); 9780759108813 (pbk.); 0759108803 (hbk.); 9780759108806 (hbk.)Subject(s): Ethnology -- Research | Ethnology -- Fieldwork | Ethnology -- Methodology | Culture and globalizationDDC classification: 305.80072 LOC classification: GN345 | .N38 2007
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-275) and index.

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.

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