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In: Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology
In: Oxford India paperbacks
In: National Association for the Practice of Anthropology bulletin, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 28-30
ISSN: 1556-4797
In: Understanding public health
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 245-262
ISSN: 1545-4290
In: Anthropology, culture, and society
Globalisation has had a massive impact on the teaching and practice of anthropology. This important new book, edited by leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen, addresses the methodological problems that these changes have wrought, and in doing so fills a major gap in the contemporary study and teaching of anthropology. The essays in this book show how the focus has shifted from traditional studies of specific sites, towards the movements and shifts assoicated with increasing migration and population flows -- the result of living in an increasingly globalised world. Written by a range of distinguished anthropologists, it offers innovative new approaches to the discipline in the light of these changes, making it indispensable as a teaching text, at higher levels, and as mandatory reading for practitioners and researchers in a wide range of merging disciplines. Topics explored include the methodology of studying on the internet; global and spatial identities in the Caribbean; shifting boundaries in coastal communities; the anthropology of political life; issues of law and the flow of human substances; and the diffusion of moral values created by globalisation
In: Social research: an international quarterly, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 777-807
ISSN: 0037-783X