This anthology draws together wide-ranging material with a common theme: anthropology's changing meaning and relevance at the end of the 20th century, in the advent of worldwide media saturation and new technologies.
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Critical anthropology now - an introduction, George E. Marcus; virtual social science and the politics of family values, Judith 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 20th century, Peter Dobkin Hall; locating corporate environmentalism - synthetics, implosions and the Bhopal disaster, Kim Fortun; worldling cyerbspace - 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.
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ISBN
9780852552704
Publisert
1999-11-18
Utgiver
Vendor
James Currey
Vekt
805 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, UU, UP, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
370

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