The following is a long, but not comprehensive, list of books
and and articles related to the
subjects covered by Worlds of Difference. Please feel free to e-mail
us with any suggestions for additional entries.
Books
Anton, Danilo J., Diversity,
Globalization and the Ways of Nature
Appadurai, Arjun (ed.), Modernity
at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
Bauman, Zygmunt, Liquid
Modernity
Bauman, Zygmunt, The
Individualized Society
Bauman, Zygmunt, Globalization:
The Human Consequences
Berger, Peter L., and Samuel P. Huntington (eds.), Many
Globalizations
Berry, Wendell, The
Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Berry, Wendell, What
Are People For?
Capra, Fritjof, The
Web of Life
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza, The
Great Human Diasporas
Cavanagh, John, et al. (eds.), Alternatives
to Economic Globalization
Chua, Amy, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy
Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Clark, Kenneth, Civilization
Clark, John, Worlds
Apart: Civil Society and the Battle for Ethical Globalization
Cowen, Tyler, Creative
Destruction
Davis, Wade, Light
at the Edge of the World
Diamond, Jared, Guns,
Germs and Steel
Diamond, Jared, The
Third Chimpanzee
Finn, Janet L., Tracing
the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata
Fisher, William (ed.),
Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization
at the
Friedman, Thomas, The
Lexus and the Olive Tree
Geertz, Clifford, Local
Knowledge
Gilroy, Paul, The
Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
Gupta, Akhil, Postcolonial
Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India
Hardt, Michael and DeNegri, Antonio, Empire
Harris, Marvin, Cannibals
and Kings
Harris, Marvin, Our
Kind
Hinton, Alexander Laban (ed.), Annihilating
Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
International Forum on Globalization, Intrinsic
Consequences of Economic Globalization on the Environment
Iyer, Pico,
The Global Soul
Iyer, Pico, Video
Night in Kathmandu
Jackson, Brinckerhoff, A
Sense of Place, a Sense of Time
Jamison, Fredric and Miyoshi, Masao (eds.), The
Cultures of Globalization
Kraybill, Donald B., The
Riddle of Amish Culture
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Triste
Tropiques
Lewontin, Richard, Human
Diversity
Maffi, Luisa (ed.), On
Biocultural Diversity
Malhotra, Kamal (ed.), Making
Global Trade Work for People
Malkki, Liisa H., Purity
and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees
in Tanzania
Mankekar, Purnima, Screening
Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood,
and Nation in Postcolonial India
Mathews, Gordon, Global Culture/Individual Identity
Mayr, Ernst, Evolution
and the Diversity of Life
McNeill, William H., Plagues
and Peoples
Mead, Margaret, Cultural
Patterns and Technical Change
Mittelman, James (ed.), Globalization:
Critical Reflections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The
Family of Man
Nettle, Daniel and Romaine, Suzanne, Vanishing
Voices
Ong, Aihwa, Flexible
Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
Posey, Darrell A. (ed.), Cultural
and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity
Power, Samantha, A
Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Pretty, Jules, Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
Said, Edward, Culture
and Imperialism
Said, Edward, Orientalism
Schaeffer, Robert K., Understanding
Globalization
Smith, Richard Chase, A Tapestry Woven From the Vicissitudes of
History, Place and Daily Life
Stiglitz, Joseph, Globalization
and Its Discontents
Tauli-Corpuz, Victoria, and Joji Cariño (eds.), Reclaiming
Balance: Indigenous Peoples, Conflict Resolution & Sustainable
Development
Tierney, Patrick, Darkness
in El Dorado
Vitek, John and William, Rooted
in the Land: Essays on Community and Place
Wallerstein, Immanuel, Utopistics
Weiner, Eugene (ed.), The
Handbook of Interethnic Coexistence
Wilson, Edward O., On
Human Nature
Wilson, Edward O., The
Diversity of Life
Wilson, Edward O., Consilience
Wilson, Samuel M., The
Emperor’s Giraffe
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Articles
& book chapters
Asad, Talal, “Multiculturalism and British Identity in the
Wake of the Rushdie Affair,” in Genealogies
of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and
Islam (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press) pp. 239-268
Anderson, Benedict, “Long Distance Nationalism,” from
The
Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World
(1998, Verso)
Appadurai, Arjun, “Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the
Era of Globalization,” from Meyer and Geschiere, eds., Globalization
and Identity: Dialectics of Flow and Closure (1999, Blackwell)
Balibar, Etienne, “Racism and Nationalism,” in Race,
Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities , by Etienne Balibar and
Immanuel Wallerstein (London: Verso, 1991) pp. 37-67
Baudrillard, Jean, “The Precession of Simulacra,” from
Simulacra
and Simulation (1994, University of Michigan)
Berry, Wendell, “Conserving Communities”
Burawoy, Michael, “Reaching for the Global,” from Global
Ethnography: Forces, Connections and Imaginations in a Postmodern
World (2000, University of California)
Chakrobarty, Dipesh, “The Idea of Provincializing Europe,”
from Provincializing
Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000,
Princeton)
Chatterjee, Partha “Whose Imagined Community?,” from
The
Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
(1993, Princeton)
Clifford, James, “Diasporas,” Cultural Anthropology,
3(9) (1994)
Friedman, Jonathan, “General Historical and Culturally Specific
Properties of Global Systems,” from Cultural
Identity and Global Process (1994, Sage)
Forte, Maxmilian, “Globalization and World-Systems Analysis,”
from Review, XXI, 1, 1998
Geertz, Clifford, “Anti Anti-Relativism,” in Available
Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics (Princeton
University Press, 2000) pp. 42-67
Giddens, Anthony, “The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity,”
from The
Consequences of Modernity (1990, Stanford University Press)
Gupta, Akhil and Ferguson, James, “Beyond ‘Culture’:
Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference,” Cultural
Anthropology 7(1) (1992)
Habermas, Jurgen, “Technology and Science as Ideology,”
from Towards
a Rational Society: Student Protest, Science, and Politics (1970,
Beacon)
Hannerz, Ulf, “The Global Ecumene as a Landscape of Modernity,”
from Transnational
Connections (1996, Routledge)
Held, David, et. al., “Global Transformations: Politics,
Economics, and Culture,” from Politics
at the Edge: The PSA yearbook 1999 (1999, Political Studies
Association)
Huntington, Samuel, “The New Era in World Politics,”
in The
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Touchstone,
Simon and Schuster, 1996) pp. 19-39
Ivy, Marilyn, “Mourning the Japanese Thing,” in In
Near Ruins: Cultural Theory and the End of the Century , Nicholas
Dirks, ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 1998) pp. 93-118
Jameson, Frederic, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic
of Late Capitalism,” from New Left Review, 146 (1984)
Kearney, Michael, “The Local and the Global: The Anthropology
of Globalization and Transnationalism,” from Annual Review
of Anthropology, 1995
Levi-Strauss, Claude, “The Sorcerer and His Magic,”
in Structural
Anthropology (Basic Books, 1963) pp. 167-185
Marcus, George, “Ethnography in/of the World System: The
Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography,” from Annual Reviews
of Anthropology, 1995, 24
Matthews, Gordon, Global
Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural
Supermarket (Routledge, 2000)
Mignolo, Walter, “On Gnosis and the Imaginary of the Modern/Colonial
World System,” from Local
Histories, Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and
Border Thinking (2000, Princeton)
Sahlins, Marshall, “Goodbye to Tristes Tropes: Ethnography
in the Context of Modern World History,” Modern History 65
(March 1993)
Spiro, Melford, “Some Reflections on Cultural Determinism
and Relativism with Special Reference to Emotion and Reason,”
in Culture
and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers of Melford E. Spiro (University
of Chicago, 1987) pp. 32-58
Tsing, Ana, “The Global Situation,” Cultural Anthropology
15(3) (2000)
Turner, Terence, “Human Rights, Human Difference: Anthropology’s
Contribution to an Emancipatory Cultural Politics,” Journal
of Anthropological Research, vol. 53, 1997, pp. 273-291
Turner, Terence, “Class Projects, Social Consciousness, and
the Contradictions of ‘Globalization’” (2000,
u.p. manuscript)
Wallerstein, Immanuel, “The National and the Universal: Can
There Be Such a Thing as World Culture,” from Anthony King,
ed., Culture,
Globalization, and the World-System (1997, University of Minnesota)
Yang, Mayfair, “Putting Global Capitalism in its Place,”
Current Anthropology 41, 4 (2000)
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