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Title Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  302.23 W622 2005    ---  Available
Description 282 p. ; 23 cm.
Series California series in public anthropology ; 13
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-266) and index.
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, 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, Heather Paxson -- Anthropology and The Bell Curve / Jonathan Marks.
Subject Mass media and anthropology.
Communication in anthropology.
Communication -- Political aspects.
Specialists.
Common fallacies.
Added Author Besteman, Catherine Lowe.
Gusterson, Hugh.
ISBN 0520243560 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520243569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520243552 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780520243552 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 265305918
YDXCP 2111908
NZ1 8573169

 
    
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