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Critical Anthropology Now : Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas /

"The 1980s saw a remarkable infusion of provocative new styles of critical thought in US academia. In anthropology, the classic Writing Culture deeply challenged basic assumptions about the nature of representation, of description, and of subjectivity and objectivity. One of Writing Culture...

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Otros Autores: Marcus, George E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Fe, N.M. : School of American Research Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.