04487nam 2200793Ia 450 991082561820332120200520144314.01-4175-7368-61-282-76316-41-59875-008-997866127631680-520-93848-810.1525/9780520938489(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||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhy America's top pundits are wrong anthropologists talk back /edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20051 online resource (292 pages)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 fallaciesMass media and anthropology.Communication and society.Communication in anthropology.CommunicationPolitical aspects.Specialists.Common fallacies.302.23Besteman Catherine Lowe985445Gusterson Hugh1600853MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825618203321Why America's top pundits are wrong4071135UNINA