Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World
Recasting the Area Studies Debate

Cloth $45.00L   |   ISBN 0-8156-2963-X   |   2002

Paper $19.95s   |   ISBN 0-8156-2982-6   |   2002

These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure "area-based knowledge" to respond to social sciences and globalization.

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"University professors of anthropology, international relations, political science, history, economics, and Middle Eastern, African, and gender studies present 12 contributions examining the area studies debate by placing conventional academic disciplines in their historical and cultural contexts and by elucidating the problems of traditional area studies."
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6 x 9, 240 pages, notes, index, bibliography