How do global processes affect the everyday lives of ordinary people? How do the ups and downs of the international financial system affect farmers in Kenya? What does justice mean in Peru or Bolivia, and how does the answer to that question resonate in New Jersey or Maryland? What does it mean to be a citizen when people all over the world are on the move? What are the implications of being different in China, the United States, or Tanzania? How do people with power use it, and how do people without power resist or accommodate themselves to it? Explore the questions cultural anthropologists and their students at Rutgers ask in their research.

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