Summary
Marc Abeles: The Anthropology of Globalization
In the five chapters of this book (From Economics to Anthropology, Anthropology before Globalization, Globalization and the Political Aspect, Violence in Globalization and Migration, Civil Rights and Civil Society), Abeles provides an overview of the topics dealt with by the contemporary critical anthropology of globalization and analyzes the problems faced by such anthropology. "One of the most striking aspects of modernity is the way in which each of us constantly moves between one plane and another, between the local and the global. It is perhaps precisely this that makes an anthropology of globalization justified and appropriate; namely, it captures that dialectic from within by establishing areas where man's preoccupation with the near and everyday is directly related to his perception of belonging to the planetary world. If anthropology cannot tell us anything in particular about globalization, it can in turn illuminate globalization as a multidimensional process in which traditional rappers cease to be valid, the complex relationship between the individual and the collective is reshaped, and the way people think and act profoundly changes all over the planet". - from negotiations
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