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Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520938489
- ISBN: 0520938488
- ISBN: 1598750089
- ISBN: 9781598750089
- ISBN: 1417573686
- ISBN: 9781417573684
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 pages).
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 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 -- Anthropology and The Bell Curve / Jonathan Marks. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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