Finding the Individual in the Global

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ID3008673
AuthorsSidney W Mintz (Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author), Sidney Mintz
Year2004
Volume3
Issue1
Pages1-11
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1683-478X • E-ISSN: 2168-4227
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1683478x.2004.10552540
OpenAlexW1974064497
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited13

This paper brings together two strands of anthropological theory that may be fruitfully combined but that are combined only rarely: globalization and the individual life history. Globalization, the paper argues, is not new, despite the rhetoric with which it is described in much of anthropology today; it has been taking place at least since the discovery of the New World by Europeans, after which unprecedented ruptures between people and places began occurring on a grand scale. These ruptures are still occurring, of course: the life history can serve as a means of documenting the ongoing social transformations of people undergoing processes of global migration. Through the individual voices of life history, the human and cultural meanings of globalization in the recent past can be made manifest

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Globalization · Political science · Rhetoric · Social life · Social science · Sociology · World history · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy

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