Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World

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Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World is written by June C. Nash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0759113998 (ISBN 10) and 9780759113992 (ISBN 13).

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.