Introduction -- The cultural object : pizza -- The social world : Italian restaurants -- The receiver : the consumer -- The creator : the pizzaiolo -- Conclusion : towards new understandings of food glocalization

This special issue is dedicated to the memory of Susan P. Douglas, whose pioneering work on multicultural dynamics in international marketing has inspired many other scholars including this issue's guest editors, to develop further research in this area

The central Gujarat region of western India is home to the entrepreneurial landowning Patel caste who have leveraged their rural dominance to become a powerful global diaspora of merchants, industrialists, and professionals. Investigating the Patels intriguing ascent, Vinay Gidwani analyzes its...

"As we enter the material worlds of Spanish colonizers, we should get to know a little bit about the colonizers themselves. In this chapter, I characterize the economic standing of colonizers, focusing on their wealth and the kinds of things on which they spent or invested their money. To...

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION I: Dynamics of Tension, Forces of Change -- SECTION II: Boundaries Breached and Blurred -- SECTION III: Plying the Trade -- SECTION IV: The Energy of Memes -- SECTION V: Muses for...

Intro -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Miners, Women, and Community Coalitions in the UMWA Pittston Strike -- 3: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? -- 4: With God on Everyone's Side -- 5: Buying Out the Union -- 6: Approaching Industrial Democracy in Nonunion Mines -- 7: Small Places, Close...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Thinking with roads -- Penny Harvey -- 1. Why highways remake hierarchies -- Luke Heslop and Galen Murton -- 2. Stuck on the side of the road -- Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal -- Galen Murton and Tulasi...

In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point...