Publisher's Synopsis
In "Global Anthropology", two distinguished anthropologists provide an overview of the history and importance of the global approach in the social sciences. They shatter the claim that the global perspective is a new phenomenon in history that has evolved into a social order beyond that of the individual "society". The authors outline a global systemic anthropology that demonstrates how the global is embedded in real lives, not as another place or level of reality, but as a mere aspect of social reality, and thus, ethnographically accessible. Their global systemic approach encompasses the study of cultural forms, of symbolic structures of ritual practices of everyday strategies of life cycles. It reveals how the global only exists in its local effects, and provides a means of studying the relation between cultural identity and global processes.;The authors present data from their last two decades of research showing how the global systemic framework contextualizes the local and the global. Their work reveals a transdisciplinarity that incorporates all subjects that deal with the human condition. This comprehensive study should be a valuable resource for theoreticians and fieldworkers in anthropology, archaeology, social and political theory, and world history.
