ISBN:
9781782384021
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (284 Seiten)
Serie:
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology 7
DDC:
306.2
Schlagwort(e):
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
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Political anthropology Case studies
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Power (Social sciences) Case studies
Kurzfassung:
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
Anmerkung:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782384021
URL:
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