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
Otros Autores: Besteman, Catherine Lowe, Gusterson, Hugh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 13.
Temas:
Mass media and anthropology.
Communication and culture.
Communication in anthropology.
Communication > Political aspects.
Specialists.
Common fallacies.
Communication > Social aspects.
Médias et anthropologie.
Communication > Aspect social.
Communication en anthropologie.
Communication > Aspect politique.
Spécialistes.
Erreurs populaires.
Communication et culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Kulturanthropologie
Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung
Kritik
Culturele antropologie.
Massamedia.
Debatten.
Anthropologie > Kulturpolitik > USA.
Kulturpolitik > Anthropologie > USA.
Kommunikation > Gesellschaft > USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign policy in the Balkans, and contemporary debates over race, welfare, and violence against women. In the clear, vigorous prose of the pundits themselves, these contributors reveal the hollowness of what often passes as prevailing wisdom and passionately demonstrate the need for a humanistically complex and democratic understanding of the contemporary world. Available: November 2004 Pub Date: January 2005.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (282 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.
ISBN:9780520938489
0520938488
1598750089
9781598750089
1417573686
9781417573684

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