Introduction: Who is Alma? -- Slouching toward globalization -- The anthropology of globalization -- Development, devolution, and discourse -- Constructing identity -- Migration: people on the move -- Transnationalism: living across borders -- Diaspora: yearning for home -- Refugees: the anthropology of forced migration -- Globalization from the ground up -- Tribal cultures: no longer victims -- Peasants: survivors in a global world -- Afterthoughts, by way of conclusions.