04487nam 2200793Ia 450 991045036940332120210603024659.01-4175-7368-61-282-76316-41-59875-008-997866127631680-520-93848-810.1525/9780520938489(CKB)1000000000017907(EBL)227348(OCoLC)475933958(SSID)ssj0000271618(PQKBManifestationID)11248193(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271618(PQKBWorkID)10295178(PQKB)11006850(MiAaPQ)EBC227348(DE-B1597)520898(OCoLC)1096479253(DE-B1597)9780520938489(Au-PeEL)EBL227348(CaPaEBR)ebr10069068(CaONFJC)MIL276316(EXLCZ)99100000000001790720040615d2005 ub 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrWhy America's top pundits are wrong[electronic resource] anthropologists talk back /edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh GustersonBerkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20051 online resource (292 p.)California series in public anthropology ;13Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24355-2 0-520-24356-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexIn 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 2005California series in public anthropology ;13.Mass media and anthropologyCommunication and societyCommunication in anthropologyCommunicationPolitical aspectsSpecialistsCommon fallaciesElectronic books.Mass media and anthropology.Communication and society.Communication in anthropology.CommunicationPolitical aspects.Specialists.Common fallacies.302.23Besteman Catherine Lowe985445Gusterson Hugh1046035MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450369403321Why America's top pundits are wrong2472696UNINA