ISBN:
0803222742
,
9780803222748
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxxi, 369 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Border crossings
DDC:
301.07207
Keywords:
Anthropology Research
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America
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Anthropology Methodology
;
America
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Anthropology International cooperation
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America
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Intercultural communication America
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Culture and globalization America
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Indigenous peoples America
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Transnationalism
;
Anthropology Methodology
;
Anthropology International cooperation
;
Intercultural communication
;
Culture and globalization
;
Indigenous peoples
;
Anthropology Research
;
Anthropology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General
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Anthropology ; Methodology
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Anthropology ; Research
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Culture and globalization
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Ethnic relations
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Indigenous peoples
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Intercultural communication
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Transnationalism
;
Bevölkerung
;
Interkulturalität
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Ethnologie
;
Bevölkerung
;
Interkulturalität
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Anthropologie
;
America Ethnic relations
;
America Ethnic relations
;
America
;
Amerika
;
Amerika
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This is a collection of essays on the evolving focus and perspective of anthropologists and anthropology of North and South America. It looks at how modern scholars are rethinking both how and why they study culture as they gain a new appreciation for the impact they have on the people they study
Abstract:
Toward a transnational Americanist anthropology /Kathleen S. Fine-Dare and Steven L. Rubenstein --Racing across borders in the Americas: anthropological critique and the challenge of transnational racial identities /John M. Norvell --The politics of knowledge and identity and the poetics of political economy: the truth value of dividing bridges /Linda J. Seligmann --Reinventing archaeological heritage: critical science in a North/South perspective /James A. Zeidler --Bodies unburied, mummies displayed: mourning, museums, and identity politics in the Americas /Kathleen S. Fine-Dare --Crossing boundaries with shrunken heads /Steven L. Rubenstein --Local conflict, global forces: fighting for public education in a New York suburb /Jean N. Scandlyn --El envío: remittances, rights, and associations among Central American immigrants in greater Washington DC /Barbara Burton and Sarah Gammage --Global indigenous movements: convergence and differentiation in the face of the twenty-first-century state /Les W. Field --What can Americanists and anthropology learn from the alliances between indigenous peoples and popular movements in the Amazon? /Lêda Leitão Martins --"That's your Hopi uncle": ethical borders in the field /Enrique Salmón --The dust bowl tango: looking at South America from the Southern plains /Peter McCormick --The lizard's dream /Steven L. Rubenstein and Kathleen S. Fine-Dare --Fordism, post-Fordism, and Americanist anthropology /David L. Nugent.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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