The Anthropology of Globalization

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.

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• 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, media, and ideologies
  
• Offers extensive geographic coverage: from Africa and Asia to the Caribbean, Europe, and North America
  
• Updated edition includes new selections, section introductions, and recommendations for further reading

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xi

Overture: Thinking the Global 1

1 Tracking Global Flows 3
Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo

2 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 47
Arjun Appadurai

3 The Global Situation 66
Anna Tsing

Part I Itinerant Capital 99

Introduction 99

4 Notes on Mayan Youth and Rural Industrialization in Guatemala 101
Linda Green

5 Thai Love Thai: Financing Emotion in Post-crash Thailand 121
Alan Klima

6 Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks 137
Karen Ho

Part II Mobile Subjects 165

Introduction 165

7 Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese 167
Aihwa Ong

8 Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity 184
Katherine Pratt Ewing

9 Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France 212
Didier Fassin

Part III Roving Commodities 235

Introduction 235

10 Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald’s and Consumerism in Moscow 237
Melissa L. Caldwell

11 Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism 254
Ariana Hernandez-Reguant

12 Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA 277
Andrew Lakoff

Part IV Traveling Media 301

Introduction 301

13 Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World 303
Tom Boellstorff

14 Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood, and Global Media 334
Brian Larkin

15 The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements 352
Jeffrey S. Juris

Part V Nomadic Ideologies 371

Introduction 371

16 The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface 373
Sally Engle Merry and Rachel E. Stern

17 Disorderly Development: Globalization and the Idea of ‘‘Culture’’ in the Kalahari 403
Rene´e Sylvain

18 Politico-moral Transactions in Indian AIDS Service: Confidentiality, Rights, and New Modalities of Governance 433
Kavita Misra

Index 468

“The Anthropology of Globalization, 2nd Edition is a treasury of the vast store of new and exciting work being done on this theme. It will be an invaluable text for classes on globalization in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, literature, ethnic studies, and international studies.”
Akhil Gupta, UCLA

"This volume brings together some of the most insightful anthropological writing on globalization, and so achieves the miracle of making sense of the innovations, countervailing tendencies and dilemmas that are now part of the study of culture in a changing world."
Ronald Niezen, McGill University

Jonathan Xavier Inda is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his publications are Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics (Blackwell, 2006) and the edited volumes Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics (Blackwell, 2005) and Race, Identity, and Citizenship (Blackwell, 1999).

Renato Rosaldo is Professor of Anthropology at New York University and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of Culture and Truth (1989) and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974 (1980), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Anthropology of Globalization provides an exciting introduction to global change, focusing simultaneously on the large-scale processes through which various cultures are becoming increasingly interconnected, and on the ways that people around the world mediate these processes in culturally specific ways. This new edition also addresses the limits of global mobility and connection.

Inda and Rosaldo have assembled some of the finest and newest work on globalization published in English by both established and emerging anthropologists, including Arjun Appadurai, Anna Tsing, Aihwa Ong, Didier Fassin, Sally Engle Merry, Tom Boellstorff, Karen Ho, and Andrew Lakoff. Beginning with a revised contribution by the editors, this second edition also includes new readings, helpful section introductions, and recommendations for further reading. Itprovides readers with a valuable resource on local and global processes that both promote and constrain movement and linkage.