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Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back, edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- Contents
-
- 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
- Seven deadly sins of Samuel Huntington
- Anthropology and The Bell Curve
- Jonathan Marks
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781417573684
- Label
- Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back
- Title
- Why America's top pundits are wrong
- Title remainder
- anthropologists talk back
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
- Subject
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- Anthropologie -- Kulturpolitik -- USA
- Common fallacies
- Common fallacies
- Communication -- Aspect politique
- Communication -- Aspect social
- Communication -- Political aspects
- Communication -- Political aspects
- Communication and society
- Communication en anthropologie
- Communication in anthropology
- Communication in anthropology
- Culturele antropologie
- Debatten
- Electronic books
- Erreurs populaires
- Kommunikation -- Gesellschaft -- USA
- Kritik
- Kulturanthropologie
- Kulturpolitik -- Anthropologie -- USA
- Mass media and anthropology
- Mass media and anthropology
- Massamedia
- Médias et anthropologie
- Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies
- Specialists
- Specialists
- Spécialistes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
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- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Besteman, Catherine Lowe
- Gusterson, Hugh
- Series statement
- California series in public anthropology
- Series volume
- 13
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mass media and anthropology
- Communication and society
- Communication in anthropology
- Communication
- Specialists
- Common fallacies
- Médias et anthropologie
- Communication
- Communication en anthropologie
- Communication
- Spécialistes
- Erreurs populaires
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Common fallacies
- Communication in anthropology
- Communication
- Mass media and anthropology
- Specialists
- Culturele antropologie
- Massamedia
- Debatten
- Kulturanthropologie
- Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung
- Kritik
- Anthropologie
- Kulturpolitik
- Kommunikation
- Label
- Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back, edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index
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- online resource
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- Contents
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- 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
- Seven deadly sins of Samuel Huntington
- Anthropology and The Bell Curve
- Jonathan Marks
- 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
- Control code
- ocm57516759
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781417573684
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
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- 22573/cttt4vfw
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)57516759
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back, edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Seven deadly sins of Samuel Huntington
- Anthropology and The Bell Curve
- Jonathan Marks
- 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
- Control code
- ocm57516759
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781417573684
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttt4vfw
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)57516759
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Anthropologie -- Kulturpolitik -- USA
- Common fallacies
- Common fallacies
- Communication -- Aspect politique
- Communication -- Aspect social
- Communication -- Political aspects
- Communication -- Political aspects
- Communication and society
- Communication en anthropologie
- Communication in anthropology
- Communication in anthropology
- Culturele antropologie
- Debatten
- Electronic books
- Erreurs populaires
- Kommunikation -- Gesellschaft -- USA
- Kritik
- Kulturanthropologie
- Kulturpolitik -- Anthropologie -- USA
- Mass media and anthropology
- Mass media and anthropology
- Massamedia
- Médias et anthropologie
- Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies
- Specialists
- Specialists
- Spécialistes
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