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1	Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography more books like this by James Clifford (Editor), George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist In these new essays, a group of experienced ethnographers, a literary critic, and a historian of anthropology, all known for advanced analytic work on ethnographic writing, place ethnography at the center of a new intersection of social history, interpretive anthropology, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. The authors analyze ... see all copies from $8.31! new only from $27.95! \| first editions
2	The Affect Effect: Dynamics of Emotion in Political Thinking and Behavior more books like this by W Russell Neuman (Editor), George E Marcus (Editor), Michael Mackuen (Editor) add to wishlist Passion and emotion run deep in politics, but researchers have only recently begun to study how they influence our political thinking. Contending that the long-standing neglect of such feelings has left unfortunate gaps in our understanding of political behavior, "The Affect Effect" fills the void by providing a comprehensive overview of current ... see all copies from $17.55! new only from $18.95! \| SVS
3	Ethnography Through Thick & Thin more books like this by George E Marcus add to wishlist In the 1980s, George Marcus spearheaded a major critique of cultural anthropology, expressed most clearly in the landmark book "Writing Culture", which he coedited with James Clifford. "Ethnography through Thick and Thin" updates and advances that critique for the late 1990s. Marcus presents a series of penetrating and provocative essays on the ... see all copies from $17.60! new only from $32.81! \| SVS
4	Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences more books like this by George Marcus, Michael M J Fischer (Photographer) add to wishlist Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Meditations of Marcus Aurelius more books like this by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius, George Long add to wishlist see all copies from $5.99! new only from $12.21! \| signed copies
6	The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, the Most Corrupt Congressman Ever Caught more books like this by Marcus Stern, George E Condon Jr, Jerry Kammer add to wishlist The Pulitzer Prize-winning team that uncovered the biggest bribery scandal in US history tells the colourfully sordid story of a corruption in the highest levels of the CIA, the Pentagon and the Congress. Duke Cunningham was an all-American success story. The Midwestern boy who went off to war, became a hero and rode his fame into Congress, he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor), Fred R Myers (Editor) add to wishlist The essays in this collection signal a new relationship between anthropology and the study of art. The authors explore the boundaries and affinities between art, anthropology, representation, and culture, casting a critical, ethnographic light on the art worlds of the contemporary West and their 'traffic' in non-Western objects. Starting from the ... see all copies from $10.25! new only from $24.33! \| first editions \| SVS
8	With Malice Toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments more books like this by George E Marcus, James H Kuklinski (Editor), Dennis Chong (Editor) add to wishlist With Malice toward Some: How People Make Civil Liberties Judgments addresses an issue integral to democratic societies: how people faced with a complex variety of considerations decide whether or not to tolerate extremist groups. Relying on several survey-experiments, Marcus, Sullivan, Theiss-Morse, and Wood identify and compare the impact on ... see all copies from $5.77! new only from $5.77! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Political Tolerance and American Democracy more books like this by John J Sullivan, George E Marcus (Photographer), James Piereson (Photographer) add to wishlist This path-breaking book reconceptualizes our understanding of political tolerance as well as of its foundations. Previous studies, the authors contend, overemphasized the role of education in explaining the presence of tolerance, while giving insufficient weight to personality and ideological factors. With an innovative methodology for measuring ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.65! \| first editions
10	Paranoia Within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist Like the McCarthy era of the 1950s, there is a strong current of paranoid social thought at the end of the 20th century. Conspiracy theories abound, not only in extremist ideologies and groups, but in commerce, science, and economics-arenas where a paranoid style is least expected. A curiosity about paranoia at its most reasonable is at the root ... see all copies from $20.19! new only from $33.00!
11	Para-Sites: A Casebook Against Cynical Reason more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist "Para-Sites", the penultimate volume in the Late Editions series, explores how social actors located within centres of power and privilege develop and express a critical consciousness of their own situations. Departing from the usual focus on ethnography and cultural analysis on the socially marginalized, these pieces probe subjects who are ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $25.57!
12	Corporate Futures: The Diffusion of the Culturally Sensitive Corporate Form more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist This is part of a series of annuals designed to probe cultural, institutional and geopolitical change as the 20th century closes. The books provide in-depth interviews with those closely involved with these changes. This volume focuses on the investment of corporations in the concept of culture, long considered the province of anthropologist or ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $23.44!
13 view cover	Rereading Cultural Anthro-P more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor), George E Marcus (Editor), Stephen a Tyler (Contributions by) add to wishlist During its first six years (1986-1991), the journal "Cultural Anthropology "provided a unique forum for registering the lively traffic between anthropology and the emergent arena of cultural studies. The nineteen essays collected in "Rereading Cultural Anthropology," all of which originally appeared in the journal, capture the range of approaches, ... see all copies from $4.39! new only from $32.98!
14 view cover	Cultural Producers in Perilous States: Editing Events, Documenting Change more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist This is a collection of ten interviews explore how producers of documentary media - filmmakers, journalists, and artists - located in societies considered marginal to the high-tech global centres respond to local and international audiences in creating their works. Interviewees include: a South African playwright who is shaping a distinctive form ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $12.50!
15 view cover	Connected: Engagements with Media more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist From the frontiers of cyberspace to Tibetans in exile, from computer bulletin boards to faxes, film and videotape, the evolution of media continues to generate new avenues for cultural criticism, political activism and self-reflection. How is contemporary life affected by this proliferation of information technologies? How does the Internet ... see all copies from $7.20! new only from $32.00!
16 view cover	Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist What is it like to be a scientist at the end of the 20th century? How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who are the people behind the new technologies, and how do they address the difficult moral and professional issues during a time of global change? This work explores these and other important ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $31.00!
17 view cover	Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment more books like this by George E Marcus, W Russell Neuman, Michael Mackuen add to wishlist This work draws on research in neuroscience, physiology, and experimental psychology to conceptualize habit and reason as two mental states that interact in a delicate, highly functional balance controlled by emotion. It sheds light on a range of political behaviour, including party identification. see all copies from $14.95! new only from $20.60! \| SVS
18 view cover	Reconsidering the Dem. Public-Ppr. more books like this by George E Marcus (Editor), Russell L Hanson (Editor) add to wishlist This work provides a re-examination of the evidence about the citizen's capacity for self-governance and what it means for the future of democratic politics, from both empirical and normative perspectives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.69! \| first editions
19 view cover	Ocasi: The Marquis and the Anthropologist, a Collaboration more books like this by George E Marcus add to wishlist Anthropologist George Marcus and Fernando Mascarenhas, Marques of Fronteira and Alorna, reveal the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through their letters and commentaries. This innovative and experimental ethnography is a reflection on the survival of the contemporary Portuguese nobility. It will appeal to scholars of ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $7.19!
20 view cover	Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary more books like this by Paul Rabinow, George E Marcus, James Faubion add to wishlist In this compact volume, two of anthropology's most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge and practice. James Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics more books like this by George E Marcus add to wishlist This book challenges the conventional wisdom that improving democratic politics requires keeping emotion out of it. Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided and leads contemporary theorists to misdiagnose the current state of American democracy. ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $32.75! \| SVS
22 view cover	Ethnographica Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology more books like this by Neni Panourgia (Editor), George E Marcus (Editor) add to wishlist Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 "Interpretation of Cultures", brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since Levi-Strauss' structuralism. In place of Levi-Strauss' deep structures, Geertz placed "deep meanings" and "thick descriptions," in a synthesis of the American tradition of cultural anthropology and new qualitative approaches ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $35.94!
23 view cover	Sentimental Citizen - CL. more books like this by George E Marcus add to wishlist This book challenges the conventional wisdom that improving democratic politics requires keeping emotion out of it. Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided and leads contemporary theorists to misdiagnose the current state of American democracy. ... see all copies from $56.99! new only from $119.14!
24 view cover	Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition more books like this by James D Faubion (Editor), George E Marcus (Editor), Michael M J Fischer (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $21.52! new only from $21.52! \| SVS
25	Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth-Century America more books like this by George E Marcus add to wishlist The histories of great American dynastic fortunes, such as those of the Gettys, the Rockefellers and the Guggenheims, have been told as tales of passion, jealousy, achievement and eccentricity. This volume of essays, developed from the perspectives of contemporary anthropology and cultural studies, examines private concentrations of wealth and ... see all copies from $47.38!

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