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Required Texts

Amazon logo Ghosh, Amitov. In an Antique Land. Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN: 9780140142037.

Amazon logo Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780140092332.

Amazon logo The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Edited by Jonathan Inda, and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222323.

Amazon logo Coupland, Douglas. Microserfs. Harpercollins; 1st ed edition, 1995. ISBN: 9780060391485.

Marx, Karl, and Fredrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. (Download text from Project Gutenberg.)

Amazon logo Wolf, Diane. Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520070721.

Readings by Class Session

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Introduction
1Introduction: Why is Everyone Talking About Globalization?
2The Cultural Homogenization Debates: Hip Hop in JapanAmazon logo Condry, Ian. "Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization of Popular Culture." In Urban Life. Edited by G. Gmelch and W. Zenner. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781577661948.

Amazon logo Condry, Ian. "The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music." In Tranactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan. Edited by U. Poiger and H. Fehrenbach. Berghahn Books, 2000. ISBN: 9781571811080.
3The Economic and Political DebatesAmazon logo Giddens, Anthony. "Globalization." Chapter 1 in Runaway World. New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN: 9780415944878.

Amazon logo Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Myth of 'Globalization' and the European Welfare State." In Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780745622187.

"Enron: Seduction and Betrayal." New York Review of Books. 14 March 2002.
Part 1: Histories Of The Global
4-5Global Histories Before CapitalismGhosh, Amitov. Into an Antique Land.
6European ColonialismMintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. Introduction, and pp. 1-50.

Recommended Readings

Amazon logo Wolf, Eric. "The Slave Trade." Chapter 7 in Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780520048980.

Amazon logo Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995. ISBN: 9780297816355.
7European Economic ExpansionSelections from Marx and Engels. The Communist Manifesto.

Sweetness and Power. pp. 51-100.

Recommended Readings

Wolf, Eric. "The Industrial Revolution." Chapter 9 in Europe and the People Without History.

Amazon logo Hobsbawm, Eric. "The French Revolution." Chapter 3 in The Age of Revolution. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679772538.
8The Rise of Consumer Society, The Welfare State and the Third WorldSweetness and Power. pp. 101-186.

Recommended Readings

Amazon logo Terkel, Studs. Selections from Hard Times. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780394746913.

Amazon logo Hobsbawm, Eric. "Into the Economic Abyss." and "The Third World." Chapters 3 and 13 in The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. ISBN: 9780679730057.
9Film: Modern Times
Part 2: Investigating Contemporary Globalization
A. Transformations - Economic
10Deindustrialization and the Growth of Service IndustriesAmazon logo Bensman, David, and Roberta Lynch. Chapters 1, 2 and 4 in Rusted Dreams. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780520063020.
11-12Film: Roger and Me. The Rise of High TechCoupland, Douglas. Microserfs.
13New Industrialization in the "Third World"Amazon logo Wolf, Diane. Chapters 5, 6, and 8 in Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780520086579.

Amazon logo Freeman, Carla. "Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbado's Off-shore Pink-Collar Sector." In The Anthropology of Globalization. Edited by Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9780631222323.
14Theorizing the Economic TransformationAmazon logo Harvey, David. "The Political-Economic Transformation of Late Twentieth Century Capitalism." In Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. ISBN: 9780631162940.
B. Transformations - Political and Geographic
15The New Post-Cold War GeographyAmazon logo Verdery, Katherine. Chapters 1 and 8 in What was Socialism, What Comes Next? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691011325.
16MigrationsEpstein, Beth. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 in Collective Terms. Dissertation, New York University, 1988.
17Migrations (cont.)Ong, Aihwa. "The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Citizenship, and Capital Circuits." In The Anthropology of Globalization.

Amazon logo Rothenberg, Daniel. Preface and Chpater 1 in With These Hands. Berkeley: University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520227347.
C. Transformations - Culture, Media and Technology
18Media in Motion

Film: Clips From Indian Popular Films.
Larkin, Brian. "Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities." In The Anthropology of Globalization.

Amazon logo Ganti, Teja. "And Yet My Heart is Still Indian: Culture, Identity and the Bombay Film Industry." In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310.

Appadurai, Arjun. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Political Economy." In The Anthropology of Globalization.
19Reworking Networks: From Activism to the Mafia

Film: Clips From WTO Protests Showdown in Seattle.
Amazon logo McLagan, Meg. "Computing for Tibet." In Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520232310.

Nordstrom, Carolyn. Selection from Extra-state Globalization of the Illicit. In On Deepter Reflection. Edited by Gusterson, H. and C. Besteman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Handout on Russian Mafia from New York Review of Books.

Hughes, Nancy Scheper. "The Traffic in Human Organs." In The Anthropology of Globalization.
20Biotech and the New Science

Film: The Gene Hunters.
Brush, Stephen. "Bioprospecting the Public Domain." Culture Anthropology. 14 (1999).

Reardon, Jenny. "The Human Genome Diversity Project." Social Studies of Science (2001).
21-23Student Presentations
24Judging Globalization in a Post-Iraq War EraFerguson, James. "Global Disconnect." In The Anthropology of Globalization.

Cooper, Fred. "What is the Concept of Globalization Good For?" African Affairs. 100 (2001): 189-213.
25Conclusion

 








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