Nuclear Rites
Subtitle: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 10, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780520213739
Subjects: Armaments industries; Atomic & molecular physics; Cultural studies; Nuclear weapons; Ordnance, weapons technology; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; Technology; Science; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; History; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Military Science; Peace
First sentence: In a context in which policy makers, international relations experts, nuclear weapons scientists, and antinuclear activists have sought to persuade us that there is only one way to understand the world and that they knew what it is, the contribution of anthropology is to disturb comfortable understandings of the world by showing the simultaneous plausibility and arbitrariness of multiple ways of understanding and living in it.