Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines

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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Taking People Seriously 1. Understanding Inner-City Poverty: Resistance and Self-Destruction under U.S. Apartheid 2. Min(d)ing the Body: On the Trail of Organ-Stealing Rumors 3. World Markets: Anthropological Perspectives 4. Political Ideologies: Socialism and Its Discontents 5. On Conflict and Violence 6. Imagined but Not Imaginary: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Modern World 7. Fighting the Good Fight: Fundamentalism and Religious Revival 8. Unraveling “Race” for the Twenty-First Century 9. Interpreting Gender and Sexuality: Approaches from Cultural Anthropology 10. Medical Knowledge and Body Politics 11. Anthropology, Culture, and Environment 12. Hunger in Africa: Untangling Its Human Roots 13. Anthropology and the Aid Encounter 14. The Refugee: A Discourse on Displacement 15. Our Own Way: On Anthropology and Intellectual Property 16. Anthropologists in a World with and without Human Rights 17. Future Generations and Global Standards: Children’s Rights at the Start of the Millennium 18. The Anthropology of Science 19. Fieldwork at the Movies: Anthropology and Media 20. Ideas of Culture and the Challenge of Music 21. Art/Anthropology/Museums: Revulsions and Revolutions 22. Paradise Postponed: The Predicaments of Tourism 23. Survival International Contributors Index