Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Besteman, Catherine Lowe.

Gusterson, Hugh.

Series:

California series in public anthropology ; 13.

California series in public anthropology ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and anthropology.

Communication and society.

Communication in anthropology.

Communication--Political aspects.

Communication.

Specialists.

Common fallacies.

Physical Description:

282 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]

Contents:

1 Introduction / Hugh Gusterson Gusterson, Hugh, Catherine Besteman Besteman, Catherine

2 The Seven Deadly Sins of Samuel Huntington / Hugh Gusterson Gusterson, Hugh

3 Samuel Huntington, Meet the Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, and the Clash of Civilizations / Keith Brown Brown, Keith

4 Haunted by the Imaginations of the Past: Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts / Tone Bringa Bringa, Tone

5 Why I Disagree with Robert Kaplan / Catherine Besteman Besteman, Catherine

6 Globalization and Thomas Friedman / Angelique Haugerud Haugerud, Angelique

7 On The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman / Ellen Hertz Hertz, Ellen, Laura Nader Nader, Laura

8 Extrastate Globalization of the Illicit / Carolyn Nordstrom Nordstrom, Carolyn

9 Class Politics and Scavenger Anthropology in Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue of Prosperity / Kath Weston Weston, Kath

10 Sex on the Brain: A Natural History of Rape and the Dubious Doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology / Stefan Helmreich Helmreich, Stefan, Heather Paxson Paxson, Heather

11 Anthropology and The Bell Curve / Jonathan Marks Marks, Jonathan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.

ISBN:

0520243552

0520243560

OCLC:

55679697