The Anthropology of Globalization

Updated with a fresh introduction and brand new selections, the second edition of The Anthropology of Globalization collects some of the decade’s finest work on globalization, focusing on the increasing interconnectedness of people around the world, and the culturally specific ways in which these connections are mediated. Provides a rich introduction to the subject Grounds the study of globalization ethnographically by locating global processes in everyday practice Addresses the global flow of capital, people, commodities, media, and ideologies Offers extensive geographic coverage: from Africa and Asia to the Caribbean, Europe, and North America Updated edition includes new selections, section introductions, and recommendations for further reading

List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Overture: Thinking the Global 1 1 Tracking Global Flows 3 Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo 2 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 47 Arjun Appadurai 3 The Global Situation 66 Anna Tsing Part I Itinerant Capital 99 Introduction 99 4 Notes on Mayan Youth and Rural Industrialization in Guatemala 101 Linda Green 5 Thai Love Thai: Financing Emotion in Post-crash Thailand 121 Alan Klima 6 Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks 137 Karen Ho Part II Mobile Subjects 165 Introduction 165 7 Cyberpublics and Diaspora Politics among Transnational Chinese 167 Aihwa Ong 8 Between Cinema and Social Work: Diasporic Turkish Women and the (Dis)Pleasures of Hybridity 184 Katherine Pratt Ewing 9 Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France 212 Didier Fassin Part III Roving Commodities 235 Introduction 235 10 Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald’s and Consumerism in Moscow 237 Melissa L. Caldwell 11 Copyrighting Che: Art and Authorship under Cuban Late Socialism 254 Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 12 Diagnostic Liquidity: Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA 277 Andrew Lakoff Part IV Traveling Media 301 Introduction 301 13 Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World 303 Tom Boellstorff 14 Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood, and Global Media 334 Brian Larkin 15 The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements 352 Jeffrey S. Juris Part V Nomadic Ideologies 371 Introduction 371 16 The Female Inheritance Movement in Hong Kong: Theorizing the Local/Global Interface 373 Sally Engle Merry and Rachel E. Stern 17 Disorderly Development: Globalization and the Idea of ‘‘Culture’’ in the Kalahari 403 Rene´e Sylvain 18 Politico-moral Transactions in Indian AIDS Service: Confidentiality, Rights, and New Modalities of Governance 433 Kavita Misra Index 468