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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On debt : tracking the shifting role of the debtor in U.S. bankruptcy legal practice / Linda Coco
  • On commerce : analyzing the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 / Jay Ou
  • On bureaucracy : excessively up at the International Labour Organisation / Ellen Hertz
  • On dispossession : the work of studying up, down, and sideways in Guatemala's Indigenous land rights movements / Liza Grandia
  • On food : manufacturing food insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico / Roberto J. Gonzalez
  • On environment : the broker state, Peruvian hydrocarbons policy, and the Camisea gas project / Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto
  • On family : adoptive parenting up, down, and sideways / Rachael Stryker
  • On truth : the repressed memory wars from top to bottom / Robyn Kliger
  • On common sense : lessons on starting over from post-Soviet Ukraine / Monica Eppinger
  • On caring : solidarity anthropology (or, how to keep health care from becoming science fiction) / Adrienne Pine

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