Besteman, Catherine
by Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back
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Berkeley. 2004. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0520243560. 282 pages. paperback. keywords: Anthropology Politics . FROM THE PUBLISHER - In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign policy in the Balkans, and contemporary debates over race, welfare, and violence against women. In the clear, vigorous prose of the pundits themselves, these contributors reveal the hollowness of what often passes as prevailing wisdom and passionately demonstrate the need for a humanistically complex and democratic understanding of the contemporary world. inventory #36437 ISBN: 0520243560.
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- Besteman, Catherine
- Author
- Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0520243560
- ISBN 13
- 9780520243569
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- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley Ca, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- January 17, 2005
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