ISBN:
0520243560
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0520243552
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (282 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
California series in public anthropology 13
Series Statement:
California Series in Public Anthropology Ser v.13
Parallel Title:
Print version Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong : Anthropologists Talk Back
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media and anthropology
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Communication Political aspects
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Specialists
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Communication and society
;
Communication in anthropology
;
Common fallacies
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Common fallacies
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Communication ; Political aspects
;
Communication and society
;
Communication in anthropology
;
Mass media and anthropology
;
Specialists
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Seven Deadly Sins of Samuel Huntington; 3. Samuel Huntington, Meet the Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, and the Clash of Civilizations; 4. Haunted by the Imaginations of the Past: Robert Kaplan's Balkans Ghosts; 5. Why I Disagree with Robert Kaplan; 6. Globalization and Thomas Friedman; 7. On The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman; 8. Extrastate Globalization of the Illicit; 9. Class Politics and Scavenger Anthropology in Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue of Prosperity
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Sex on the Brain: A Natural History of Rape and the Dubious Doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology11. Anthropology and The Bell Curve; Notes; Suggested Further Reading; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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