THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL - THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM

This review examines current anthropological literature concerned with migration and other forms of population movement, and with the moveme nt of information, symbols, capital, and commodities in global and tra nsnational spaces. Special attention is given to the significance of c ontemporary increases in the volume and velocity of such flows for the dynamics of communities and for the identity of their members. Also e xamined are innovations in anthropological theory and forms of represe ntation that are responses to such nonlocal contexts and influences.