Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader

Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader expands on standard studies of social movements by offering a collection of writings that is exclusively anthropological in nature and global in its focus-thereby serving as an invaluable tool for instructors and students alike.

• Based on fieldwork carried out on four continents - North America, South America, Africa, and Asia - and in 14 countries
  
• Includes articles that address problems ranging from global health and the spread of diseases; loss of control over basic resources such as water and fuel; militarization; to the repression of indigenous peoples and of women
  
• Offers solutions formulated by local peoples