Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong : Anthropologists Talk Back.

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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Hunt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Besteman, Catherine Lowe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Temas:
Mass media and anthropology.
Communication in anthropology.
Communication > Political aspects.
Specialists.
Common fallacies.
Médias et anthropologie.
Communication en anthropologie.
Communication > Aspect politique.
Spécialistes.
Erreurs populaires.
Common fallacies
Communication in anthropology
Communication > Political aspects
Mass media and anthropology
Specialists
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Seven Deadly Sins of Samuel Huntington; 3. Samuel Huntington, Meet the Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, and the Clash of Civilizations; 4. Haunted by the Imaginations of the Past: Robert Kaplan's Balkans Ghosts; 5. Why I Disagree with Robert Kaplan; 6. Globalization and Thomas Friedman; 7. On The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman; 8. Extrastate Globalization of the Illicit; 9. Class Politics and Scavenger Anthropology in Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue of Prosperity.

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