Beyond ‘national character’: Anthropology Addressing Global Challenges

Authors

  • Raúl Sánchez Molina Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Abstract

Since the beginning, social and cultural anthropology has been interested in global connections of culture. However, this interest has been increased in the last decades due to the social and cultural consequences of globalization, diversifying not only research fields, but also contexts, analytical units, research techniques, and applications. While exploring and proposing new alternatives, anthropologists are seeking new interdisciplinary approaches in different fields such as health, development, education, or migration. In doing so, current ethnographies are focusing on family, social networks, communities at local, national, and transnational level, civil organization, citizenship, human rights, or social networks in Internet. By contextualizing these changes and developments in what has traditionally been known as applied anthropology,
this article seeks to analyze how current approaches and applications are addressing socialcultural challenges pose by globalization

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Published

2014-11-12

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How to Cite

Sánchez Molina, R. (2014). Beyond ‘national character’: Anthropology Addressing Global Challenges. Antropología Experimental, 12. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1901

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