Globalization and Change in Fifteen Cultures: Born in One World, Living in Another / Edition 1

by George Spindler, Janice E. Stockard

Overview

Explore cultural change with GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGE IN FIFTEEN CULTURES: BORN IN ONE WORLD, LIVING IN ANOTHER! Composed of original articles, this anthology brings anthropology to life and reflects a world changed by globalization and an anthropology committed to documenting the effects of the vast cultural flows of people, information, goods, and technology, now in motion the world over. Examples of global coverage include the Bedouin in Sudan, Mardu in Australia, Sambia in New Guinea, Canela in Brazil, Yolmo in Nepal, Ju/Hoansi in Namibia, Minangkabau in Sumatra, Scottish crofters, Greek villagers, Chinese minorities, the Aztecs and Yucatecans in Mexico, and Mexican immigrants, African-American gang members, and Wisconsin town residents in the U.S.A.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780534636487
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	03/21/2006
Series:	Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Janice E. Stockard received her PhD in anthropology at Stanford University in 1985. Before her extensive doctoral field research in South China, she worked among Bay Area Native Americans to evaluate a Bureau of Indian Affairs urban relocation program. Maintaining this interest in applied anthropology, she has served as social science advisor to two national organizations dedicated to increasing women's participation and retention in Information Technology industries. She is currently a Distinguished Practitioner at the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University. Spanning the globalization of textiles, gender, and technology, effects of technological and economic change on family and marriage, and women in IT industries, her career has many facets. For more than 25 years, Dr. Stockard has enjoyed teaching across the range of educational settings: private research and large state universities as well as small liberal arts colleges and at sea (on the MV Explorer). This broad experience and her emphasis on an ethnographic case-based approach to anthropology have inspired her part in Mapping Cultures across Space and Time.

Table of Contents

Part 1: CHALLENGES TO IDENTITY & POWER. 1. Frances Berdan "Continuity and Change in Aztec Culture: From Imperial Lords to Royal Subjects." 2. Bill & Jean Crocker "Change in the Lives of a Brazilian Indigenous People: To pluck eyelashes (or not?) among the Canela." 3. Dru Gladney "Cultural Identity in China: The Rising Politics of Ethnic Difference." 4. Lincoln Keiser "The Vice Lord Phoenix: Socio-Cultural Change in an African-American Street Gang." Part 2: CHANGE IN GENDER HIERARCHIES. 5. Gilbert Herdt and Birgitta Stolpe "Sambia Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change." 6. Evelyn Blackwood "Mothers to Daughters: Social Change and Matrilineal Kinship in a Minangkabau Village." 7. Richard Lee"The Ju/'Hoansi of Southern Africa at the Crossroads: Continuity and Change in the Time of AIDS." 8. Cindy Hull "From Field to Factory and Beyond: New Strategies for New Realities in a Yucatecan Village." Part 3: NEW PATTERNS OF MIGRATION & MOBILITY. 9. Naomi Bishop "The Yolmo People of Melemchi, Nepal: Change & Continuity." 10. Robert Tonkinson "The Mardu Aborigines: On the Road to Somewhere." 11. Bill Young "From Local "Tribe" to Transnational Arab Society: The "New" Rashaayda Bedouin of Sudan." 12. Leo Chavez "Culture Change and Cultural Reproduction: Lessons from Research on Transnational Migration." Part 4: EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC CHANGE & MODERNIZATION. 13. PARMAN Sue "Scottish Crofters: Narratives of Change among Small Landholders in Scotland." 14. FRIEDL, Ernie, "A Village in Greece; Vasilika Then and Now." 15. SANO/FUJITA "Through Japanese Eyes: Culture Change in a Mid-Western Town." Index.