Globalization: object - perspective - horizon

• Autores: Otávio Velho
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 4, Nº. 2, 1999, págs. 320-339
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article proposes an approach to globalization as a perspective and myth (in contrast to globalization as an object). It appeals to an anthropological framework of analysis and examines challenges that local/global relationships raise for the consolidated issues and concepts of the discipline. It also explores the relationships between globalization and a "spirit of the times" that manisfests itself in several domains, from academic to practical ones. To capture this spirit of our times, I focus on the field of religiosity (Pentecostalism. New Age) and on anthropological practice itself in a nonscientificist dialogue and in interaction with other domains and representations