Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade's finest work on globalization, focusing on the increasing interconnectedness of people around the world, and the culturally specific ways in which these connections are mediated.
Provides a rich introduction to the subject
Grounds the study of globalization ethnographically by locating global processes in everyday practice
Addresses the global flow of capital, people, commodities,...
Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade...
In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire to overcome racial inequalities in health; from heart disease to diabetes, the populations most afflicted by a range of illnesses are racialized minorities. The solutions generally proposed to the problem ofracial health disparities have been social and environmental in nature, but in the wake of the mapping of the human genome, genetic thinking has come to have considerable influence on how such inequalities are problematized. Racial...
In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political concerns. Important to this politics of life is the desire ...
