Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World: An Anthropological Odyssey

By June C. Nash

Book Overview

In this book distinguished anthropologist June Nash demonstrates how ethnography can illuminate a wide array of global problems. She describes encounters with an urban U.S. community undergoing de-industrialization, with Mandalay rice cultivators accommodating to post-World War II independence through animistic pratices, with Mayans mobilizing for autonomy, and with Andean peasants and miners confronting the International Monetary Fund. Havin worked in a great variety of cultural settings around the world, Nash challenges us to expand our anthropological horizons and to think about local problems in a global manner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759108811
• ISBN13: 9780759108813
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 6.1"