Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World

Reviews / Votes

For the past fifty years June Nash has been consistently five or ten years ahead of her time. The topics on which she has made ground breaking interventions-feminist theory, local-global relations, ethnography of powerful institutions, consciousness and resistance, social movements, indigenous empowerment, militarization and empire, ethics and politics of research- document anthropology's major preoccupations since the 1950s. This volume offers a comprehensive record of Nash's achievements confirms her place as one of the most influential and accomplished anthropologists of our times. We are well advised to read closely, to appreciate how she has shaped our field, and to glean some clues about what is coming next. -- Charles R. Hale, University of California, Santa Barbara Practicing Anthropology in a Globalized Worldoffers students of anthropology and globalization a unique tour of the intellectual and political development of one of the most inspiring contemporary cultural anthropologists while also providing a world tour of social and cultural movements that have staked out interconnected terrains of resistance to U.S. Empire-building, global capital, and political and cultural forces of homogenization. Through in-depth essays that bring to life the contradictory politics of cultural and political economy in a transnational world, June Nash provides her readers with an insightful comparative collection that adds depth and breadth to the ethnography of globalization through time. -- Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon [an] important volume... Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice Reviews * This new collection of writings by June Nash is eagerly anticipated. Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World encompasses the full sweep of Nash's research on three continents during more than fifty years of her distinguished career as an anthropologist. These essays will be read and re-read by researchers, students, and activists who will find engaged scholarship at its best. Looking back on her long-term work on indigenous cultural identities, women in social movements, and global political economy, June Nash reflects on what we can learn from the past and how we can work toward a more just future through ethnographic practice. A tour de force. -- Florence E. Babb, Author of After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua and Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Wo This new collection of writings by June Nash is eagerly anticipated. Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World encompasses the full sweep of Nash's research on three continents during more than fifty years of her distinguished career as an anthropologist. These essays will be read and re-read by researchers, students, and activists who will find engaged scholarship at its best. Looking back on her long-term work on indigenous cultural identities, women in social movements, and global political economy, June Nash reflects on what we can learn from the past and how we can work toward a more just future through ethnographic practice. A tour de force. -- Florence E. Babb, Author of <I>After Revolution: Mapping Gender <I> and <I>Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua<I> and Vada Allen Yeomans Pro