Critical anthropology now : unexpected contexts, shifting constituencies, changing agendas / edited by George E. Marcus.

Other author Marcus, George E.
Format Book
Publication InfoSanta Fe, N.M. : School of American Research Press, 1999.
Descriptionviii, 440 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSchool of American Research advanced seminar series
School of American Research advanced seminar series. ^A68013
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 387-419) and index.
LCCN 98041001
ISBN0933452500
ISBN0933452519 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GN33 .C74 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold