Cultural Anthropology (Four-Volume Set) (Sage Studies in Anthropology) (1ST ed.)

Table of Contents:
VOLUME 1: MOORINGS
Operations of "Culture"
Thick Description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture - Clifford Geertz
No Nature/ No Culture - Marilyn Strathern
Beyond "Culture" Space, identity, and the politics of difference - Gupta Akhil and James Ferguson
The Interpretation of Culture(s) after Television - Lila Abu-Lughod
Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems - Michael M.J. Fischer
Designing Research
Up the Anthropologist: Perspectives gained from studying up - Laura Nader
Ethnography In/Out of the World System: The emergence of multisited ethnography - George Marcus
Contingent Stories of Anthropology, Race and Feminism - Paula Ebron
Analytics
Nietzche, Genealogy, History - Michel Foucault
′Introduction′, Technologies of Gender: Essays on theory, film and fiction - Teresa De Lauretis
Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing historiography - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Genre, Intertextuality and Social Power - Charles L Briggs and Richard Bauman
Articulating the Archaic: Cultural difference and colonial nonsense - Homi Bhaba
Writing
Ethnographic Allegory - J. Clifford
Difference: ′A Special Third World Women Issue′ - Trinh T. Minh-Ha
Versions of the Dead: Kalunga, Cuban-Kongo materiality, and ethnography - T. Ochoa
VOLUME 2: MODERNITIES
Materialities
The Mindful Body: A prolegomenon to future work in medical anthropology - Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Margaret Lock
The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity - Aihwa Ong
Becoming Persons: Consciousness and sociality in human evolution - Tim Ingold
After Nature: Steps to an antiessentialist political ecology - Arturo Escobar
Consciousness, Affect, Subjectivity
Reification and the Consciousness of the Patient - Michael Taussig
Constructing Regional Worlds in Experience: Kula exchange, witchcraft, and Gawan local events - Nancy D. Munn
The Misplaced Legacy of Gregory Bateson: Toward a cultural dialectic of knowledge and desire - Charles W. Nuckolls
Structures and States
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State - P. Abrams
Making Empire Respectable: The politics of race and sexual morality in 20th-century colonial cultures - Ann L. Stoler
The State of Shame: Australian multiculturalism and the crisis of indigenous citizenship - Elizabeth Povinelli
Democracy and Violence in Brazil - Teresa P.R. Caldeira and James Holston
Resistance, Counterpublics
Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal - Sherry Ortner
Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis: The meanings of bioscience in a multicultural world - Rayna Rapp
Indigenous Movements and the Risks of Counterglobalization: Tracking the campaign against Papua New Guinea′s Ok Tedi mine - Stuart Kirsch
VOLUME 3: EMERGENCE
Re-Conceiving Wholes
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun Appadurai
The Global Situation - Anna Tsing
Thug Realism: Inhabiting Fantasy in Urban Tanzania - Brad Weiss
In the Mirror: The legitimization work of globalization - Susan Bibler Coutin, Bill Maurer and Barbara Yngvesson
The Work of the New Economy: Consumers, Brands and Value Creation - Robert J. Foster,
Figuring Historical Difference
The Fire-walkers Kataragama: The rise of Bhakti religiosity in Buddish Sri Lanka - Gananath Obeyesekere
The End of the Body? - Emily Martin
Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African postcolony - Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
Technologies of Everyday Life: The economy of impotence in reform China - Judith Farquhar
New Moscow Monuments, or, States of Innocence - Bruce Grant
Mediations
Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a discursive space for indigenous media - Faye Ginsburg
The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines - Rafael Vicente
Dubbing Culture: Indonesian gay and lesbian subjectivities and ethnography in an already globalized world - Tom Boellstorff
Modes Of Care
Where it Hurts: Indian material for an ethics of organ transplantation - Lawrence Cohen
Doctors, Borders and Life in Crisis - Peter Redfield
VOLUME 4: ENGAGEMENTS
Recursions
Structure, Sign and Play - Jacques Derrida
Situated Knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective - Donna Haraway
The Evidence of Experience - Joan W.Scott
Other: From noun to verb - Nathaniel Mackey
Occidentalism: The world turned upside-down - James G. Carrier
The Gender of Theory - Catherine Lutz
(Re)Conceiving The Political
The Problem of Ideology: Marxism without guarantees - Stuart Hall
The Anthropological Shock: Chernobyl and the contours of the risk society - Ulrich Beck
A Hall of Mirror: The rhetoric of indigenism in Brazil - Alcida Ramos
Cultural Citizenship, Inequality and Multiculturalism - Renato Rosaldo
Edward Said and the Political Present - Nadia Abu El-Haj
Crossing Fields
Border Crossings: Narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan - Sharon Traweek
Anthropology in Area Studies - Jane Guyer
On Kinship and Marriage: A critique of the genetic and gender calculus of evolutionary psychology - Susan McKinnon
Medical Anthropology and Epidemiology: Divergences or convergences? - Marcia Inhorn
Engaging Public Spheres
Searching for "Voices" Feminism, anthropology, and the global debate over female genital operations - Christine J. Walley
Human Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture (and Some Anthropology along the Way) - Sally Engle Merry
An Anthropology of Structural Violence - Paul Farmer


Biographical Note:
Kim Fortun is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research mainly focuses on the dynamics of the environmental field in different historical and geographic contexts. She is co-editor of the journal, Cultural Antropology.

Mike Fortun is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As historian and anthropologist of science, his interest lie in the science and political economy of contemporary genomics. With Kim Fortun, he is co-editor of Cultural Anthropology.

Cultural anthropology studies human society - from tribal to complex modern societies. Throughout its history, cultural anthropology has involved diverse approaches to the broad range of human cultural expression. The actions and interactions of humans are of interest to Cultural Anthropologists, who in their discipline try to understand what it means to be "human". This major work gives an authoritative overview of Cultural Anthropology in four volumes.

Volume I: Moorings includes articles -- by cultural anthropologists and others -- that have had a particularly forceful impact on the anthropological imagination in the last fifty years.
Volume II: Modernities explores the many ways cultural anthropologists have examined, critiqued and been part of modernist projects and work through topics such as nationalism, citizenship and human rights.
Volume III: Emergence opens up anthropological work that has focused on the re-making of society and culture in the wake of massive change such as "globalization".
Volume IV: Engagements examines engagements between anthropologists in different national and cultural contexts, engagements with other disciplines and engagements with the public sphere.

Review Citations:

• Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 67 (EAN 9781412947336, Hardcover)