Up, Down, and Sideways : : Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power / / ed. by Roberto J. Gon, Rachael Stryker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Coco, Linda,; Eppinger, Monica,; González, Roberto J.,; Grandia, Liza,; Hertz, Ellen,; Johnston, Barbara Rose,; Kliger, Robyn,; Nader, Laura,; Ou, Jay,; Pine, Adrienne,; Stryker, Rachael,; Urteaga-Crovetto, Patricia,
• HerausgeberIn: Gon, Roberto J.,; Stryker, Rachael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways --; PART I. STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER --; Chapter 1. On Debt --; Chapter 2. On Commerce --; Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy --; PART II. STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE --; Chapter 4. On Dispossession --; Chapter 5. On Food --; Chapter 6. On Environment --; PART III. STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES --; Chapter 7. On Family --; Chapter 8. On Truth --; Chapter 9. On Common Sense --; Chapter 10. On Caring --; Conclusion. On Power --; Notes on Contributors --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782384021; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782384021
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Roberto J. Gon, Rachael Stryker.

Using a “vertical slice” approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions—from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.