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Globalization: The Crucial Phrase brings together scholars of anthropology and social science, as well as law and medicine to examine the challenges and opportunities introduced by rapid globalization, including economic diversity, education, labor, health, and environmental concerns.

About the Author

Brian Spooner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and coeditor (with William L. Hanaway) of Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.