Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Although the term 'globalisation' has been common in anthropology and neighbouring disciplines only since around 1990, it has spawned an impressive range of books, journal articles and academic conferences. In the mid-1990s, it actually seemed more difficult to find a major sociology or social anthropology conference that did not feature the word prominently in its programme, than to find one that did. In spite of the flurry of interdisciplinary activity around the term 'globalisation', the...
Contents
1. Introduction 1 Thomas Hylland Eriksen 2. Several Sites in One 18 Ulf Hannerz 3. Ethnography and the Extreme Internet 39 Daniel Miller and Don Slater 4. Global Places and Place-Identities - Lessons from Caribbean Research 58 Karen Fog Olwig 5. Into Our Time The Anthropology of Political Life in 6. Shifting Boundaries of a Coastal Community Tracing Changes on the Margin 99 Marianne E. Lien 7. Considering Global Local Relations Beyond Dualism 122 Knut G. Nustad 8. Anthropologies in Policies,...