Critical anthropology now: unexpected contexts, shifting constituencies, changing agendas / edited by George E. Marcus
1999, Paperback Edition. Santa Fe, N.M. : School of American Research Press. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #354996
ISBN: 0933452519
Physical description: viii, 440 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Critical anthropology now: an introduction / George E. Marcus -- Virtual social science and the politics of family values / Judity Stacey -- Generation x: anthropology in a media-saturated world / Sherry B. Ortner -- Figuring David Koresh / James D. Faubion -- New lexicon, old language: negotiating the "global" at the National Science Foundation / Donald Brenneis -- Blurred boundaries, hybrids, and changelings: the fortunes of nonprofit organizations in the late twentieth century / Peter Dobkin Hall -- Locating corporate environmentalism: synthetics, implosions, and the Bhopal disaster / Kim Fortun -- Wording Cyberspace: toward a critical ethnography in time, space and theory / Michael M.J. Fischer -- American moderns: on sciences and scientists / Paul Rabinow -- Postmodernist critique in the 1980s, nuclear diplomacy, and the "prisoner's dilemma": probing family resemblances / George E. Marcus -- Merchants in the temple of scholarship: the American University Press at century's end / T. David Brent. Subjects: Anthropology Research.
Anthropology Fieldwork.
Anthropology Methodology.
Social anthropology.
Price: €30.00