Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Taking People Seriously......Page 12
1. Understanding Inner-City Poverty: Resistance and Self-Destruction under U.S. Apartheid......Page 26
2. Min(d)ing the Body: On the Trail of Organ-Stealing Rumors......Page 44
3. World Markets: Anthropological Perspectives......Page 75
4. Political Ideologies: Socialism and Its Discontents......Page 97
5. On Conflict and Violence......Page 110
6. Imagined but Not Imaginary: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Modern World......Page 125
7. Fighting the Good Fight: Fundamentalism and Religious Revival......Page 140
8. Unraveling “Race” for the Twenty-First Century......Page 156
9. Interpreting Gender and Sexuality: Approaches from Cultural Anthropology......Page 178
10. Medical Knowledge and Body Politics......Page 209
11. Anthropology, Culture, and Environment......Page 228
12. Hunger in Africa: Untangling Its Human Roots......Page 246
13. Anthropology and the Aid Encounter......Page 270
14. The Refugee: A Discourse on Displacement......Page 289
15. Our Own Way: On Anthropology and Intellectual Property......Page 306
16. Anthropologists in a World with and without Human Rights......Page 338
17. Future Generations and Global Standards: Children’s Rights at the Start of the Millennium......Page 357
18. The Anthropology of Science......Page 370
19. Fieldwork at the Movies: Anthropology and Media......Page 378
20. Ideas of Culture and the Challenge of Music......Page 396
21. Art/Anthropology/Museums: Revulsions and Revolutions......Page 418
22. Paradise Postponed: The Predicaments of Tourism......Page 437
23. Survival International......Page 449
Contributors......Page 452
Index......Page 458