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Globalization and identity : dialectics of flow and closure / edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere.

Title
Globalization and identity : dialectics of flow and closure / edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Geschiere.
Publication
Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Meyer, Birgit
  • Geschiere, Peter
Description
338 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Group identity
  • Ethnicity
  • Nationalism
  • Internationalism
  • International economic relations
  • Social Identification
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Circassian encounters: the self as other and the production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus / Seteney Shami -- Transnationalism in the era of nation-states: China, 1900-1945 / Prasenjit Duara -- The French colonial policy of assimilation and the civility of the Originiares of the Four Communes (Senegal): a nineteenth century globalization project / Mamadou Diouf -- Enforcing the human rights of citizens and non-citizens in the era of Maastricht: some reflections on the importance of states / Jacqueline Bhabha -- Small product, big issues: value contestations and cultural identities in cross-border commodity networks / Norman Long and Magdalena Villarreal -- Commodities and the power of prayer: pentacostalist attitudes towards consumption in contemporary Ghana / Birgit Meyer -- Domesticating diamonds and dollars: identity, expenditure and sharing in southwestern Zaire (1984-1997) / Filip De Boeck -- Globalization and the power of indeterminate meaning: witchcraft and spirit cults in Africa and East Asia / Peter Geschiere -- Time and the global: against the homogeneous, empty communities in contemporary social theory / John D. Kelly -- Globalization and virtuality: analytical problems posed by the contemporary transformation of African societies / Wim van Binsbergen -- Dead certainty: ethnic violence in the era of globalization / Arjun Appadurai -- Epilogue: on some reports from a free space / Ulf Hannrz.
ISBN
0631212388
LCCN
^^^98052219^
OCLC
  • 40631653
  • SCSB-11688087
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library