| Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation Contributor(s): Marcus, George E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0226504476 ISBN-13: 9780226504476 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1994 Annotation: Encompassing a range of disciplines--notably anthropology, politics, history, comparative literature, and philosophy--the unprecedented annual publication "Late " "Editions" exposes unsettling dilemmas and unprecedented challenges facing cultural studies on the brink of the twenty-first century. Successive volumes will appear annually until the year 2000, each engaging the predicaments of particular institutions, nations, and persons at this point of social, cultural, and political change. The project will test the limits of scholarly conventions by finding new ways to expose cultural formations emerging from the maturation or exhaustion of once-powerful ideas whose validity is now deeply in question. "Perilous States, " the first volume of "Late " "Editions, " presents conversations between American scholars, most of whom are anthropologists, and individuals situated amidst political and social upheaval. Pimarily but not exclusively from Eastern Europe, the cast includes Russian writers, Hungarian scientists and academics, Armenian politicians, Siberian religious and medical leaders, a Gypsy leader, a Polish poet, a French politician, and a white South African musician who is a self-styled Zulu. Their voices unite around themes of democracy, market economy, individual rights, and the reawakened force of suppressed ethnic and racialidentities. To obtain fresh perspectives on these cultural and social transformations, the volumes will consist of in-depth conversations, relayed in essay form, between scholars and individuals in other cultures with whom they share affinities. This novel approach blends the immediacy of interviews, the objectivity of journalism, and the intellectual rigor of scholarship. Contributors to this volume are Marjorie Balzer, Sam Beck, David B. Coplan, Michael M. J. Fischer, Nia Georges, Bruce Grant, Douglas R. Holmes, Stella Gregorian, George E. Marcus, Kathryn Milun, Eleni Papagaroufali, Paul Rabinow, Julie Taylor, and Tom White. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 94229710 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.51" W x 9.19" (1.26 lbs) 400 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Marcus, George E.: - George E. Marcus is professor of political science at Williams College and the author, coauthor, or coeditor of seven books, including, most recently, "Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics, and Politics". |