Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong Anthropologists Talk Back

Name: Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong Anthropologists Talk Back
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ISBN: 9780520243552

ISBN-10: 0520243552

ISBN-13: 9780520243552

Edition: 2005

Authors: Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson

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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…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 282
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introduction




The Seven Deadly Sins of Samuel Huntington




Samuel Huntington, Meet the Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, and the Clash of Civilizations




Haunted by the Imaginations of the Past: Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts




Why I Disagree with Robert Kaplan




Globalization and Thomas Friedman




On The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman




Extrastate Globalization of the Illicit




Class Politics and Scavenger Anthropology in Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue of Prosperity




Sex on the Brain: A Natural History of Rape and the Dubious Doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology




Anthropology and The Bell Curve



Notes


Suggested Further Reading


List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


Index