Critical anthropology now : unexpected contexts,shifting constituencies, changing agendas /
Critical anthropology now : unexpected contexts,shifting constituencies, changing agendas /
edited by George E. Marcus.
- viii, 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- School of American Research advanced seminar series .
- School of American Research advanced seminar series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0933452500 0933452519 (pbk.) 085255270X : £40.00 0852552718 (pbk.) : £16.95
98041001
Anthropology--Research
Anthropology--Fieldwork
Anthropology--Methodology
GN33 / .C74 1999
301.072
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0933452500 0933452519 (pbk.) 085255270X : £40.00 0852552718 (pbk.) : £16.95
98041001
Anthropology--Research
Anthropology--Fieldwork
Anthropology--Methodology
GN33 / .C74 1999
301.072