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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Besteman, Catherine Lowe, Gusterson, Hugh
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 13.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Seven deadly sins of Samuel Huntington / Hugh Gusterson
  • Samuel Huntington, meet the Nuer : kinship, local knowledge, and the clash of civilizations / Keith Brown
  • Haunted by the imaginations of the past : Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts / Tone Bringa
  • Why I disagree with Robert Kaplan / Catherine Besteman
  • Globalization and Thomas Friedman / Angelique Haugerud
  • On the Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman / Ellen Hertz and Laura Nader
  • Extrastate globalization of the illicit / Carolyn Nordstrom
  • Class politics and scavenger anthropology in Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue of Prosperity / Kath Weston
  • Sex on the brain : A Natural History of Rape and the dubious doctrines of evolutionary psychology / Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson
  • Anthropology and The Bell Curve / Jonathan Marks.

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