Bøger af George E. Marcus

Presents a series of essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. This book examines 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.

Features a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge and practice. This book focuses on how anthropology understands its subject and how ethnographic research projects are designed and carried out.

Through authors' letters and commentaries, this book reveals the key relationship between anthropologist and subject. It is a reflection on the survival of contemporary Portuguese nobility. It is suitable for scholars of anthropological methods and fieldwork, and to researchers interested in the anthropology of elites and in Portuguese culture.

How do citizens faced with a complex variety of considerations decide whether or not to tolerate extremist groups? Relying on several survey-experiments, the authors identify and compare the impact on decision making of contemporary information, long-standing predispositions, and enduring values and beliefs.

The first volume of "Late Editions" presents conversations between American scholars, most of whom are anthropologists, and individuals situated amidst political and social upheaval with whom they share affinities. The cast is primarily but not exclusively from Eastern Europe.

Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, this text looks at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study.

This is part of a series of annuals designed to probe cultural, institutional and geopolitical change as the 20th century closes. The books provide in-depth interviews with those closely involved with these changes. This volume focuses on the investment of corporations in the concept of culture.

How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who controls the new technologies, and how are moral and professional issues addressed during a time of global change? This work explores such questions of relevance in the current scientific climate.

Offers an assessment of democracy in America that charts the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's democratic mechanisms and outlines the challenges that lie ahead. This title focuses on the quality of American political life, the representativeness of its governing institutions, and the issues of racial and economic equity.