Product Description: The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and oppositional frame of reference into one that is more international and integrative...read more

Product Description: In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national borders...read more

Product Description:     In an age of rapid globalization, regionalism might seem to be a notion better suited to the nineteenth century than the early twenty-first. Far from vanishing, however, regionalism has actually flourished in the last half century...read more

Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicity, and organizing for social justice; and the assimilation of foreign-born professionals.From portraits of the political and economic positions of Latinos in Miami and Houston to the effects of mountaintop removal on West Virginia communities, these snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being reshaped by globalization in the twenty-first century.Contributors:Catherine Brooks, Morristown, New JerseyDavid H. Ciscel, University of MemphisThaddeus Countway Guldbrandsen, University of New HampshireCarla Jones, University of Colorado, BoulderSawa Kurotani, University of Redlands (Redlands, Cal.)Paul A. Levengood, Virginia Historical SocietyCarrie R. Matthews, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBryan McNeil, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMarcela Mendoza, University of MemphisDonald M. Nonini, University of TorontoJames L. Peacock, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBarbara Ellen Smith, University of MemphisJennie M. Smith, Berry College (Mount Berry, Ga.)Sandy Smith-Nonini, University of TorontoEllen Griffith Spears, Emory UniversityGregory Stephens, University of West Indies-MonaSteve Striffler, University of ArkansasAjantha Subramanian, Harvard UniversityMeenu Tewari, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLucila Vargas, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillHarry L. Watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillRachel A. Willis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Product Description: With its original publication in 1935, this classic work established the theoretical and practical foundations for a global sociology of religion. Delineating the transition from the grand theories of religion that characterized the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the narrower, fieldwork-based focus that followed, Roger Bastide's comprehensive survey of religion was instrumental in turning the study of religion toward ethnography; as such, this book, an early attempt to understand the broad social contexts of religion, inaugurated a golden era of religious anthropology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Anthropology is a complex, wide-ranging, and ever changing field. Yet, despite its diversity, certain major themes do occur in the understandings of the world that anthropologists have offered. In this clear, coherent, and well-crafted book, James L. Peacock spells out the central concepts, distinctive methodologies, and philosophical as well as practical issues of cultural anthropology. Designed to supplement standard textbooks and monographs, the book focuses on the premises that underlie the facts that the former kinds of works generally present. Free from unnecessarily abstract theoretical language and based on compelling concrete anecdote and engaging illustration, it is written in terms understandable to the anthropological novice, as well as being of value to the professional. The book's three main concerns are the substance, method, and significance of anthropology. In his discussion of substance, method, and significance of anthropology, such as the concept of culture, as well as holism. In writing about method, he explores the distinctive character of ethnographic fieldwork and raises questions of interpretation and comparison. Finally, he considers the relevance of anthropology with respect to both its practical application and what it contributes to understanding of human affairs. Using the photographic metaphors of 'harsh light' and 'soft focus', Peacock characterizes the anthropological worldview as consisting of two elements: on the one hand, a concern with the basic reality of the human condition, free of cultural influence; on the other, a broadly based holism that attempts to grasp all aspects of that condition, including its relation to the anthropologist. His book will appeal widely to readers interested in anthropology, at all levels. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Peacock, James L., Tyson, Ruel W., Jr.

Product Description: Book by Peacock, James L.