James L. Peacock, Kenan Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was president of the American Anthropological Association from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 Peacock was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002 the American Anthropological Association awarded him the prestigious Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology. His visiting professorships have taken him to Princeton University, Yale University, Oxford University, University of California at San Diego, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. Dr. Peacock has authored or edited more than fifteen books, including the widely taught overview "The Anthropological Lens." His articles, papers, reviews, commentaries, and other writings number in the hundreds.
Peacock's new book will provide informed answers to many questions
about the future of the American South. His term 'grounded
globalism' will likely become the key one for understanding how a
transformed South will play a distinctive role, not only in the
nation but in the world. This engaging study shows a distinguished
scholar attuned to a spectacular array of evidence that has deeper
patterns he discerns. Peacock has been paying close, sensitive
attention to developments in the South, and this book represents a
report from the swirl of social change that is bringing new
peoples, cultures, and attitudes into the region.--Charles Reagan
Wilson "Director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at
the University of Mississippi "
The U.S. South is admired around the world for its unique culture.
In Grounded Globalism, Peacock offers an original and hopeful view
of how we can engage the world while keeping, and even enhancing,
the best of what the South has to offer.--President Jimmy
Carter
Peacock is a pathbreaking commentator on the impact of
globalization on the American South. In this provocative volume, he
challenges us to move beyond traditional notions of a southern
identity shaped and sustained by the South's historically
'oppositional' relationship with the rest of America to focus on
its rapidly evolving relationship with the rest of the
world.--James C. Cobb "author of Away Down South "
Grounded Globalism brings the problems and promises of
globalization down to earth in writing that is accessible to all
readers. Most studies of globalism explore its impact on 'others'
who live outside of the United States. Peacock takes us home to the
American South. Everyone interested in outsourcing, offshoring, and
realignment should read this book.--James L. Watson "editor of
Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia "
What is most compelling about Peacock's thesis is that his new
paradigm depicts an altered sense of self for the southerner.
Peacock pinpoints southern identity shifts on both communal and
individual levels. . . . His study is forward-looking, as he
anticipates how grounded globalism will continue to alter southern
identity. The vision of a South free from its 'burden of history'
is tantalizing: only time will tell if Peacock's theory comes to
pass.--Southern Quarterly
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