1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783133303321

Titolo

Why America's top pundits are wrong [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists talk back / / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , c2005

ISBN

1-4175-7368-6

1-282-76316-4

1-59875-008-9

9786612763168

0-520-93848-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages)

Collana

California series in public anthropology ; ; 13.

Altri autori (Persone)

BestemanCatherine Lowe

GustersonHugh

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media and anthropology

Communication - Social aspects

Communication in anthropology

Communication - Political aspects

Specialists

Common fallacies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Seven Deadly Sins Of Samuel Huntington -- 3. Samuel Huntington, Meet The Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, And The Clash Of Civilizations -- 4. Haunted By The Imaginations Of The Past: Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts -- 5. Why I Disagree With Robert Kaplan -- 6. Globalization And Thomas Friedman -- 7. On The Lexus And The Olive Tree, By Thomas L. Friedman -- 8. Extrastate Globalization Of The Illicit -- 9. Class Politics And Scavenger Anthropology In Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue Of Prosperity -- 10. Sex On The Brain: A Natural History Of Rape And The Dubious Doctrines Of Evolutionary Psychology -- 11. Anthropology And The Bell Curve -- Notes -- Suggested Further Reading -- Contributors --



Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign policy in the Balkans, and contemporary debates over race, welfare, and violence against women. In the clear, vigorous prose of the pundits themselves, these contributors reveal the hollowness of what often passes as prevailing wisdom and passionately demonstrate the need for a humanistically complex and democratic understanding of the contemporary world. Available: November 2004Pub Date: January 2005



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792365103321

Autore

Kothari Rita <1969-, >

Titolo

Translating India : the cultural politics of English / / Rita Kothari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-315-76043-6

1-317-64216-3

1-317-64215-5

1-282-49033-8

9786612490330

1-905763-82-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Disciplina

428/.0291471

Soggetti

English language - India

Indic literature - History and criticism

Indic literature (English) - History and criticism

Gujarati language - Translating into English

Translating and interpreting - India

Languages in contact - India

Bilingualism - India

India Languages Translating into English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2003 by St. Jerome Publishing"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Recalling: English Translations in Colonial India; Phenomenon: Old and New; Knowing the Orient; The Indian Intervention; Gitanjali; 3 The Two Worlds Theory; Mother Tongue; Other Tongue; A.K. Ramanujan; 4 Within Academia; Translation Theories: Here and There; English Studies; Feminism; Postcolonialism; 5 Outside the Discipline Machine; Readerships; Culture and Commerce; The English Eth(n)ic; Unity and Diversity; 6 Publishers' Perspective; An Historical Introduction; Post-eighties Scenario

The Cultural Economics of English TranslationDo Translations Sell?; 7 The Case of Gujarati; Linguistic Framework; Translation in Gujarat;



Publishing Analyses; Socio-historical Background; Language Policy; Gujarat Today; A Bibliographical Supplement; 8 Summing Up; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The cultural universe of urban, English-speaking middle class in India shows signs of growing inclusiveness as far as English is concerned. This phenomenon manifests itself in increasing forms of bilingualism (combination of English and one Indian language) in everyday forms of speech - advertisement jingles, bilingual movies, signboards, and of course conversations. It is also evident in the startling prominence of Indian Writing in English and somewhat less visibly, but steadily rising, activity of English translation from Indian languages. Since the eighties this has led to a frenetic ac

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910895857703321

Titolo

Bank of Valletta review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Valletta, Malta, : Bank of Valletta

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Malta

Economics

Volkswirtschaft

Wirtschaftspolitik

Theorie

Malta

Welt

Banks and banking

Economic history

Periodicals.

Malta Economic conditions Periodicals

Malta

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed