PRACTICING ETHNOGRAPHY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD by June C. Nash ( 9780759108813 )

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Title:

PRACTICING ETHNOGRAPHY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ODYSSEY

By:

June C. Nash

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Paperback

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0759108811

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9780759108813

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ALTAMIRA PRESS,U.S.

Pub. date:

21 December, 2006

Pages:

304

Description:

Tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. This book reveals these impacts on an urban US community, on Mandalay rice cultivators, on Mayan and Andean peasants and miners. It is for anthropologists and other social scientists engaged in ethnographic research.

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In her new book, distinguished anthropologist June Nash tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. She reveals these impacts on an urban U.S. community, on Mandalay rice cultivators, as well as on Mayan and Andean peasants and miners. Her decades-long research in these communities provides a valuable resource for anthropologists and other social scientists engaged in contemporary ethnographic research.

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