ISBN:
9781782384021
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
284 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology 7
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword -- Laura Nader -- Introduction: On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways: What's at Stake? -- Roberto J. González and Rachael Stryker -- PART I: STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER -- Chapter 1. On Debt: Tracking the Shifting Role of the Debtor in U.S. Bankruptcy Legal Practice -- Linda Coco -- Chapter 2. On Commerce: Analyzing the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998 -- Jay Ou -- Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy: Excessively Up at the International Labour Organisation -- Ellen Hertz -- PART II: STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE -- Chapter 4. On Dispossession: The Work of Studying Up, Down, and Sideways in Guatemala's Indigenous Land -- Rights Movements -- Liza Grandia -- Chapter 5. On Food: Manufacturing Food Insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Roberto J. González -- Chapter 6. On Environment: The "Broker State," Peruvian Hydrocarbons Policy, and the Camisea Gas Project -- Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto -- PART III: STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES -- Chapter 7. On Family: Adoptive Parenting Up, Down, and Sideways -- Rachael Stryker -- Chapter 8. On Truth: The Repressed Memory Wars from Top to Bottom -- Robyn Kliger -- Chapter 9. On Common Sense: Lessons on Starting Over from Post-Soviet Ukraine -- Monica Eppinger -- Chapter 10. On Caring: Solidarity Anthropology (or, How to Keep Health Care from Becoming Science Fiction) -- Adrienne Pine -- On Power: Concluding Comments -- Barbara Rose Johnston, Roberto J. González, and Rachael Stryker -- Notes on Contributors -- References --
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