Up, down, and sideways : anthropologists trace the pathways of power / edited by Rachael Stryker and Roberto J. González
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...
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2016
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| Series: | Studies in public and applied anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- On debt : tracking the shifting role of the debtor in U.S. bankruptcy legal practice / Linda Coco
- On commerce : analyzing the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 / Jay Ou
- On bureaucracy : excessively up at the International Labour Organisation / Ellen Hertz
- On dispossession : the work of studying up, down, and sideways in Guatemala's Indigenous land rights movements / Liza Grandia
- On food : manufacturing food insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico / Roberto J. Gonzalez
- On environment : the broker state, Peruvian hydrocarbons policy, and the Camisea gas project / Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto
- On family : adoptive parenting up, down, and sideways / Rachael Stryker
- On truth : the repressed memory wars from top to bottom / Robyn Kliger
- On common sense : lessons on starting over from post-Soviet Ukraine / Monica Eppinger
- On caring : solidarity anthropology (or, how to keep health care from becoming science fiction) / Adrienne Pine