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A Fish Story: Rethinking Globalization on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
Author(s) -
Maurer Bill
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2000.27.3.670
Subject(s) - kinship , globalization , analogy , property (philosophy) , capitalism , sociology , relation (database) , metaphysics , ethnography , movement (music) , economic geography , anthropology , political science , epistemology , geography , aesthetics , law , philosophy , politics , database , computer science
Recent discussions of globalization leave the nature of movement and of the moving objects in transnational flows relatively unexamined. Incorporating historical and ethnographic material from the British Virgin Islands, I use the analogy of the critique of the study of kinship, which highlights the assumptions of person and relation built into kinship theory, to shed light on the assumptions of property and the metaphysics of movement built into globalization research, [globalization, property, kinship theory, capitalism, Caribbean]