The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century

by Ted C. Lewellen

Book Overview

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. Globalization refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897897404
• ISBN13: 9780897897402
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"