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Book SynopsisThis work explores major shifts and re-orientations in the history of American anthropology. It engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront - becoming more self-reflexive, achieving holism, and defence of universal human rights.
Trade ReviewThis is a welcome collection that will prove useful for anthropological research across the changing borders and indigenous struggles of this hemisphere. * Journal of Anthropological Research *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Part I: Fieldwork in the Classic Mode Chapter 2 The Concept ofAire andSusto: Symbolic Representations of Perceived Social and Geographic Environment Chapter 3 A Very Bad Disease of the Arms Chapter 4 Drunkenness and Religious Conversion in a Mexican Village Chapter 5 La Trucha: A Short Story Part 6 Part II: Transitional Fieldwork in the Border Area Chapter 7 From the Invisible Hand to the Visible Feet: Anthropological Studies of Migration and Development Chapter 8 Our Misunderstood Terrorists Chapter 9 Spiritualist Healing in Mexico Chapter 10 Oral Performance by Mexican Spiritualists in Possession Trance Chapter 11 Integration of the Mixteca and the Western U.S.-Mexico Border Region via Migratory Wage Labor Part 12 Part III: Transnational and Practical Anthropology Chapter 13 The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism Chapter 14 Mixtec Political Consciousness: From Passive to Active Resistance Chapter 15 Borders and Boundaries of the State and Self at the End of Empire Chapter 16 Mixtec Ethnicity: Social Identity, Political Consciousness, and Political Activism Chapter 17 Class and Identity: The Jujitsu of Domination and Resistance in Oaxacalifornia Chapter 18 The Race to Deterritorialize in the Game of Value
