David Uru Iyam, The Broken Hoe: cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria. Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Based on fieldwork among the Biase people by a scholar who is a member of a Biase group, this book examines changes since the 1970 in the traditional forms of subsistence—agriculture, fishing, and trade—and related issues such as environmental deterioration and population growth.
Katherine S. Newman, Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class. New York: The Free Press, 1988. This book provides ethnographic research on the downwardly mobile of New Jersey as a “special tribe,” with attention to loss of employment by corporate managers and blue-collar workers, and the effects of downward mobility on middle-class family life, particularly women.
Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Boston: Longman, 1999. Robins takes a critical look at the role of capitalism and global economic growth in creating and sustaining many world problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, violence, and environmental destruction. The last section includes extended case studies to support the argument.
Deborah Sick , Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. This book is an ethnography of coffee-producing households in Costa Rica that describes the difficulties facing coffee farmers due to unpredictable global forces and the uncertain role of the state as a mediator between the global and the local.
25．Among the books on the list, the number of those published in the 1990s is _____________.
A．2 B．3 C．4 D．5
26．The two books published by the University Press of Chicago were written or edited by__________.
A．Anne Allison and David Uru Iyam
B．David Uru Iyam and Deborah Sick
C．Anne Allison and Katherine S. Newman
D．Richard H. Robbins and David Uru Iyam
27．The book that contains coffee farmers was published in ____________.
A．1988 B．1994 C．1995 D．1999
Passage 7
Questions 28-30 are based on the following passage.
Following World War II, the oil boom contributed to major economic changes in the Middle East especially the Gulf states. This unprecedented prosperity has been used to provide many social benefits, such as subsidized health, housing and education. In Kuwait, a major division in the distribution of the benefits of this wealth is between citizens and non-citizens. Foreign migrants are the majority of the population: In 1989, the population composition was 650,000 Kuwaitis, 1.3million migrant workers, and about 250,000 bedu (former or current pastoral nomads.) Foreign migrants do not have citizenship. |
