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Border crossings : transnational Americanist anthropology /

This is a collection of essays on the evolving focus and perspective of anthropologists and anthropology of North and South America. It looks at how modern scholars are rethinking both how and why they study culture as they gain a new appreciation for the impact they have on the people they study.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. (Kathleen Sue), 1953-, Rubenstein, Steven, 1962-2012
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward a transnational Americanist anthropology / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein
  • Racing across borders in the Americas: anthropological critique and the challenge of transnational racial identities / John M. Norvell
  • The politics of knowledge and identity and the poetics of political economy: the truth value of dividing bridges / Linda J. Seligmann
  • Reinventing archaeological heritage: critical science in a North/South perspective / James A. Zeidler
  • Bodies unburied, mummies displayed: mourning, museums, and identity politics in the Americas / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
  • Crossing boundaries with shrunken heads / Steven L. Rubenstein
  • Local conflict, global forces: fighting for public education in a New York suburb / Jean N. Scandlyn
  • El envío: remittances, rights, and associations among Central American immigrants in greater Washington DC / Barbara Burton and Sarah Gammage
  • Global indigenous movements: convergence and differentiation in the face of the twenty-first-century state / Les W. Field
  • What can Americanists and anthropology learn from the alliances between indigenous peoples and popular movements in the Amazon? / Lêda Leitão Martins
  • "That's your Hopi uncle": ethical borders in the field / Enrique Salmón
  • The dust bowl tango: looking at South America from the Southern plains / Peter McCormick
  • The lizard's dream / Steven L. Rubenstein and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare
  • Fordism, post-Fordism, and Americanist anthropology / David L. Nugent.