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Up, Down, and Sideways : Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power / ed. by Roberto J. Gon, Rachael Stryker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 7Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782384014
  • 9781782384021
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.2
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways -- PART I. STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER -- Chapter 1. On Debt -- Chapter 2. On Commerce -- Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy -- PART II. STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE -- Chapter 4. On Dispossession -- Chapter 5. On Food -- Chapter 6. On Environment -- PART III. STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES -- Chapter 7. On Family -- Chapter 8. On Truth -- Chapter 9. On Common Sense -- Chapter 10. On Caring -- Conclusion. On Power -- Notes on Contributors -- References -- Index
Summary: Using a “vertical slice” approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions—from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways -- PART I. STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER -- Chapter 1. On Debt -- Chapter 2. On Commerce -- Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy -- PART II. STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE -- Chapter 4. On Dispossession -- Chapter 5. On Food -- Chapter 6. On Environment -- PART III. STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES -- Chapter 7. On Family -- Chapter 8. On Truth -- Chapter 9. On Common Sense -- Chapter 10. On Caring -- Conclusion. On Power -- Notes on Contributors -- References -- Index

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Using a “vertical slice” approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions—from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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