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
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (292 pages)
ISBN:9780520938489
0520938488

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