Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy

"This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which
they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and
political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how
anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world and its global
restructuring." -- Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern
University

Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it
is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personh...