Up, down, and sideways
Subtitle: anthropologists trace the pathways of power
By: edited by Rachael Stryker and Roberto J. González
Series: Studies in public and applied anthropology -- volume 7
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781782384014; 9781782384021
Subjects: Political anthropology; Case studies; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on studying up, down, and sideways : what's at stake? / Roberto J. Gonzalez and Rachael Stryker; title: On debt : tracking the shifting role of the debtor in U.S. bankruptcy legal practice / Linda Coco; title: On commerce : analyzing the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 / Jay Ou; title: On bureaucracy : excessively up at the International Labour Organisation / Ellen Hertz; title: On dispossession : the work of studying up, down, and sideways in Guatemala's indigenous land rights movements / Liza Grandia; title: On food : manufacturing food insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico / Roberto J. Gonzalez; title: On environment : the broker state, Peruvian hydrocarbons policy, and the Camisea gas project / Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto; title: On family : adoptive parenting up, down, and sideways / Rachael Stryker; title: On truth : the repressed memory wars from top to bottom / Robyn Kliger; title: On common sense : lessons on starting over from post-Soviet Ukraine / Monica Eppinger; title: On caring : solidarity anthropology (or, how to keep health care from becoming science fiction) / Adrienne Pine; title: Conclusion : on power / Barbara Rose Johnston, Roberto J. Gonzalez, and Rachael Stryker.