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Changing Fields of Anthropology : From Local to Global.
This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The book engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Fieldwork in the Classic Mode; 1 The Concept of Aire and Susto: Symbolic Representations of Perceived Social and Geographic Environment; 2 A Very Bad Disease of the Arms; 3 Drunkenness and Religious Conversion in a Mexican Village; 4 La Trucha: A Short Story; Part II: Transitional Fieldwork in the Border Area; 5 From the Invisible Hand to Visible Feet: Anthropological Studies of Migration and Development; 6 Our Misunderstood Terrorists; 7 Spiritualist Healing In Mexico.
- 8 Oral Performance by Mexican Spiritualists in Possession Trance9 Integration of the Mixteca and the Western U.S.-Mexico Border Region via Migratory Wage Labor; Part III: Transnational and Practical Anthropology; 10 The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalizationand Transnationalism; 11 Mixtec Political Consciousness: From Passive to Active Resistance; 12 Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire; 13 Mixtec Ethnicity: Social Identity, Political Consciousness, and Political Activism.
- 14 Class and Identity: The Jujitsu of Domination and Resistancein Oaxacalifornia15 The Race to Deterritorialize in the Game of Value; Index; About the Author.