ANT 2520 / UGC299U
Globalization and Culture Spring 2006
Reading List: Required
Ali, Tariq, The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihad, and Modernity (London: Verso
2002)
Barber, Benjamin R., Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism are Reshaping the
World (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996)
Burawoy, Michael et. al., Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a
Postmodern World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000)
Chan, Ming K. ed., The Challenge of Hong Kong’s Reintegration with China (Hong Kong:
Hong Kong University Press, 1997)
Emmott. Bill, 20:21 Vision: The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (London, Penguin
Books, 2004).
Fulcher, James, Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004)
Giddens, Anthony, Runaway World: How Globalisation is Reshaping Our Lives (London:
Profile: 2002)
S. Hall, D. Held, and T. McGrew, eds. Modernity and its Futures (Cambridge, UK: Polity,
1992)
Hannerz, Ulf, Transnational Connections (London: Routledge, 1996)
Howes, David, ed. Cross-Cultural Consumption (London: Routledge, 1996)
Inda, Jonathan Xavier and Renato Rosaldo, eds., The Anthropology of Globalization (Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2002)
Lavenda, Robert H. and Emily A. Schultz, Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology
(Mountain View CA: Mayfield, 2000)
Mathews, Gordon, Global Culture / Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural
Supermarket (London: Routledge, 2000)
Mathews, Gordon, and Lui Tai-lok, eds. Consuming Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong
University Press, 2001)
Robbins, Richard H., Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, second edition (Boston:
Allyn and Bacon, 2002)
Yamashita, Shinji, Bali and Beyond: Explorations in the Anthropology of Tourism (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2003)
Reading List: Recommended
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities, revised edition (London: Verso 1991)
Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity at Large: The Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
Beyer, Peter, Religion and Globalization (London: Sage, 1994)
Burnett, Robert, The Global Jukebox: The International Music Industry (London: Routledge,
1996)
Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000
Years (London: Vintage 1998)
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives, second
edition ( London: Pluto Press, 2002)
Giddens, Anthony, Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991)
Greider, William, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism (New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1998)
Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. (Durham NC:
Duke University Press, 1991)
Jameson, Fredric and Masao Miyoshi, eds., The Cultures of Globalization (Durham NC: Duke
University Press, 1998)
Juergensmeyer, Mark, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious
Violence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)
Lanfant, M., J. Allcock and E. Bruner, eds., International Tourism: Identity and Change
(London: Sage, 1995)
Ohmae, Kenichi, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy
(New York: Harper Perennial 1990)
Ong, Aihwa, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. (Durham NC:
Duke University Press, 1999)
Parenti, Michael, The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond (San Francisco: City Lights
Bookstore, 2002)
Taylor, Timothy D., Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (New York: Routledge, 1997)
Tomlinson, John, Cultural Imperialism (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1991)
Watson, James L. ed., Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia (Stanford: Stanford
University Press 1997)
Wilson, Richard A., Human Rights, Culture and Context: Anthropological Perspectives
(London, Pluto Press, 1997).
Yergin, Daniel and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between
Government and the Marketplace that is Remaking the Modern World (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1998)