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.)

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, D...

Table of Contents

• 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