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  • Anthropology as Cultural Critique

    An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences

    by George E. Marcus, Michael M.J. Fischer ...
    Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical ... Read more

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  • Collaborative Anthropology Today

    A Collection of Exceptions

    Edited by Dominic Boyer, George E. Marcus ...
    As multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. Collaborative Anthropology Today is the outcome of a 2017 workshop held at the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine. This book ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Going to War in Iraq

    When Citizens and the Press Matter

    by Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, George E. Marcus ...
    Conventional wisdom holds that the Bush administration was able to convince the American public to support a war in Iraq on the basis of specious claims and a shifting rationale because Democratic politicians decided not to voice opposition and the press simply failed to do its job.Drawing on the most comprehensive survey of public reactions to the war, Stanley Feldman, Leonie Huddy, and George E. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Ethnography through Thick and Thin

    by George E. Marcus ...
    In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book Writing Culture, which he coedited with James Clifford. Ethnography through Thick and Thin updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Marcus presents a series of penetrating and provocative essays on the changes that continue to sweep across anthropology. He ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

    by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees, James D. Faubion ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions and contributes an introduction and an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Frontiers of Capital

    Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy

    by Douglas R. Holmes, George E. Marcus ...
    With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the “New Economy” of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ethnography by Design

    Scenographic Experiments in Fieldwork

    by Luke Cantarella, Christine Hegel, George E. Marcus ...
    Ethnography by Design, unlike many investigations into how ethnography can be done, focuses on the benefits of sustained collaboration across projects to ethnographic enquiry, and the possibilities of experimental co-design as part of field research. The book translates specifically scenic design practices, which include processes like speculation, materialization, and iteration, and applies them ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ethnography by Design

    Scenographic Experiments in Fieldwork

    by Christine Hegel, Luke Cantarella, Prof George E. Marcus ...
    Ethnography by Design, unlike many investigations into how ethnography can be done, focuses on the benefits of sustained collaboration across projects to ethnographic enquiry, and the possibilities of experimental co-design as part of field research. The book translates specifically scenic design practices, which include processes like speculation, materialization, and iteration, and applies them ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be

    Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

    Edited by Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus ...
    Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory—a matter of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be

    Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

    Edited by James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus ...
    Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Rereading Cultural Anthropology

    Edited by George E. Marcus ...
    During its first six years (1986–1991), the journal Cultural Anthropology provided a unique forum for registering the lively traffic between anthropology and the emergent arena of cultural studies. The nineteen essays collected in Rereading Cultural Anthropology, all of which originally appeared in the journal, capture the range of approaches, internal critiques, and new questions that have ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Cultural Theory

    An Introduction

    by Philip Smith, Alexander Riley ...
    This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework.Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of studyUpdates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the fieldIncludes additional ... Read more

    $45.00 USD