"An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all those concerned with the understanding of human emotions."-Karl G. Heider, American Anthropologist
"An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all tho...
2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award
Complete List of Authors: Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other...
2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award
Complete List of Authors: Dorothy Holland, Dona...
What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and workplaces. Their collaborative ethnography allows us to understand how diverse members of a community not just the elite think about and experience -politics- in ways that include much more than merely voting. This book illustrates how the...
What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolin...
A quarter of a million U.S. troops are massed in over seven hundred major official overseas airbases around the world. In the past decade, the Pentagon has formulated and enacted a plan to realign, or reconfigure, its bases in keeping with new doctrines of pre-emption and intensified concern with strategic resource control, all with seemingly little concern for the surrounding geography and its inhabitants.
The contributors in The Bases of Empire trace the political, environmental, and economic impact of these bases on their surrounding communities across the globe,...
A quarter of a million U.S. troops are massed in over seven hundred major official overseas airbases around the world. In the past decade, the Pent...
Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.
Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern...
Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile ...
While politicians, reformers, and pundits contribute to the cacophony that serves as a conversation about education, those who teach our children everyday are barely heard over the noise. This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth.
While politicians, reformers, and pundits contribute to the cacophony that serves as a conversation about education, those who teach our children ever...
While politicians, reformers, and pundits contribute to the cacophony that serves as a conversation about education, those who teach our children everyday are barely heard over the noise. This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth.
While politicians, reformers, and pundits contribute to the cacophony that serves as a conversation about education, those who teach our children ever...
