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Ethnography through Thick and Thin
In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which he coedited with James Clifford. Ethnography through Thick and Thin updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Marcus presents a series of penetrating and provocative essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. He examines, in particular, how the discipline's central practice of ethnography has been changed by "multi-sited" approaches to anthropology and how new research patterns are transforming anthropologists' careers. Marcus rejects the view, often expressed, that these changes are undermining anthropology....
Para-Sites
Para-Sites, the penultimate volume in the Late Editions series, explores how social actors located within centers of power and privilege develop and express a critical consciousness of their own situations. Departing from the usual focus of ethnography and cultural analysis on the socially marginalized, these pieces probe subjects who are undeniably complicit with powerful institutional engines of contemporary change. In each case, the possibility of alternative thinking or practices is in complex relation to the subject's source of empowerment. These cases challenge the condition of cynicism that has been the favored mode of characterizing the mind-set of intellectuals and professionals, comfortable in their lives of middle-class consumption and work. In their effort to establish para-sites of critical awareness parallel to the levels of political and economic power at which they function, these subjects suggest that those who lead ordinary lives of modest power and privilege might not be parasites in relation to the systems they serve, but may be creating unique and independent critical perspectives.
Anthropology as Cultural Critique
Using cultural anthropology to analyse debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, this text looks at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, future direction, and its insights for other fields of study.
Marcus: The Young Centurion
"Marcus" with the aid of George Manville Fenn is an exciting motion book that centers on the primary individual, Marcus Herries, a young man with a variety of strength of will and resourcefulness. England is the placing for the story, and Marcus is going thru a lot of hard situations that shape his character. Through a series of occasions, Marcus unearths himself caught in a web of risk and intrigue. As he movements thru those lines, his bravery and potential to ask brief questions are placed to the test. The story follows his journey as he faces dangerous conditions, solves mysteries, and fights enemies. The manner Fenn tells stories fills them with exhilaration by way of including elements of mystery, bravery, and finding. The book follows Marcus's increase as he is going on adventures that result in personal discoveries. These adventures display how sturdy and creative he is when matters move incorrect. "Marcus" is a thrilling tale that attracts readers into the sector of a brave younger guy as he faces a diffusion of difficult situations and makes vital findings. It's a tremendous instance of bravery, determination, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Technoscientific Imaginaries
What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the twentieth century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who are the people behind the new technologies, and how do they address the difficult moral and professional issues during a time of global change? Techno-Scientific Imaginaries explores these and other important questions at the approach of the new millennium. In these penetrating essays, twenty-four distinguished contributors from a broad range of fields present the voices of the scientists themselves—through interviews, conversations, and memoirs. We hear from Lithuanian physicists who discuss science after Communism and their o...
Sentimental Citizen
An Analysis Of How emotion functions cooperatively with reason & contributes to a healthy democratic politics.
Cultural Producers In Perilous States
Ten innovative interviews explore how producers of documentary media—filmmakers, journalists, and artists—located in societies considered marginal to the high-tech global centers respond to local and international audiences in creating their works. We meet a South African playwright who is shaping a distinctive form of activist journalism; a New Guinean producer who manages several media careers; Polish and German filmmakers developing critical documentaries on compromised new orders; a Columbian artist who provides powerful representations of endemic violence in her society; and writers from Martinique and Argentina with varied careers in the arts, media, and politics who provide tragicomic accounts of the marginal situations of their societies. Cynical, hopeful, ambivalent all at once, these cultural producers in perilous states share a keen awareness of the marginality of their societies in the broader context of global change, and associate integrity in the reporting of local events with a critical politics of representation.
Paranoia Within Reason
This text examines conspiracy theories and tackles paranoia as a style of debate within science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment. A conspiracy theory emerges as a way to address the inadequacies of rational expertise and organization in the face of the changes that undermine them
The Traffic in Culture
Article by Myers annotated separately.
Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment
This work draws on research in neuroscience, physiology, and experimental psychology to conceptualize habit and reason as two mental states that interact in a delicate, highly functional balance controlled by emotion. It sheds light on a range of political behaviour, including party identification.
