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Using a "vertical slice" approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions--from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stryker, Rachael, 1972- (Editor ), González, Roberto J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2016
Colección:Studies in public and applied anthropology.
Temas:
Political anthropology > Case studies.
Power (Social sciences) > Case studies.
Anthropologie politique > Études de cas.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Political anthropology
Power (Social sciences)
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Using a "vertical slice" approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions--from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debt culture, global financial crises, food insecurity, Indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, and corporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this is essential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 272 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781782384021
1782384022

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