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Exotic no more : anthropology on the front lines

Title
Exotic no more : anthropology on the front lines / edited by Jeremy MacClancy.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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MacClancy, Jeremy
Description
456 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 24 cm
Subject
  • Anthropological ethics
  • Anthropology > Fieldwork
  • Philosophical anthropology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction: Taking People Seriously / Jeremy MacClancy -- 1. Understanding Inner-City Poverty: Resistance and Self-Destruction under U.S. Apartheid / Philippe Bourgois -- 2. Min(d)ing the Body: On the Trail of Organ-Stealing Rumors / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 3. World Markets: Anthropological Perspectives / Jane Schneider -- 4. Political Ideologies: Socialism and Its Discontents / Chris Hann -- 5. On Conflict and Violence / Michael Gilsenan -- 6. Imagined but Not Imaginary: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Modern World / Richard Jenkins -- 7. Fighting the Good Fight: Fundamentalism and Religious Revival / William O. Beeman -- 8. Unraveling "Race" for the Twenty-First Century / Faye V. Harrison -- 9. Interpreting Gender and Sexuality: Approaches from Cultural Anthropology / Alma Gottlieb -- 10. Medical Knowledge and Body Politics / Margaret Lock -- 11. Anthropology, Culture, and Environment / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead --
  • 12. Hunger in Africa: Untangling Its Human Roots / Ellen Messer and Parker Shipton -- 13. Anthropology and the Aid Encounter / Alex De Waal -- 14. The Refugee: A Discourse on Displacement / E. Valentine Daniel -- 15. Our Own Way: On Anthropology and Intellectual Property / A. David Napier -- 16. Anthropologists in a World with and without Human Rights / Ellen Messer -- 17. Future Generations Global Standards: Children's Rights at the Start of the Millennium / Judith Ennew -- 18. The Anthropology of Science / Sarah Franklin -- 19. Fieldwork at the Movies: Anthropology and Media / Faye Ginsburg -- 20. Ideas of Culture and the Challenge of Music / John Chernoff -- 21. Art/Anthropology/Museums: Revulsions and Revolutions / Christopher B. Steiner -- 22. Paradise Postponed: The Predicaments of Tourism / Jeremy MacClancy -- 23. Survival International / Jonathan Mazower.
ISBN
  • 0226500128 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0226500136 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2001005920
OCLC
  • ocm48053762
  • SCSB-4288195
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries