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UNINA9910964660003321 |
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Autore |
Lewellen Ted C. <1940-> |
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Titolo |
The anthropology of globalization : cultural anthropology enters the 21st century / / Ted C. Lewellen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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9786612570469 |
9781282570467 |
1282570463 |
9780313389757 |
0313389756 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropology |
Globalization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Who Is Alma?; Part I: Globalizing Anthropology; Part II: Globalization and Migration; Part III: Global/Local; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. Globalization refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which tended to assume a bird's-eye perspective, globalization offers a down-and-dirty, ground-up approach in which ethnographic research is not marginal but |
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