Changing fields of anthropology : from local to global / Michael Kearney.

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Published: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004.
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 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
  • Pt. 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 trance
  • 9. Integration of the Mixteca and the Western U.S.-Mexico border region via migratory wage labor
  • Pt. III. Transnational and practical anthropology
  • 10. The local and the global : the anthropology of globalization and 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 resistance in Oaxacalifornia
  • 15. The race to deterritorialize in the game of value.