America Observed

America ObservedThere is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed fills that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon. Edited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib, the essays collected here offer a critique of such an absence, exploring its likely reasons while also illustrating the advantages of studying fieldwork based anthropological

Calling Down Fire examines the social and cultural influence of Jefferson County

Unimportant Clerks shows how their poetry reflects and contests a midcentury administrative ethos

pragmatic approach to advance care planning

He taught at Ohio State University from 1948 through 1974

and a sense of humor

often the biological father) and a priest (the spiritual father)

This comprehensive print + digital resource has been revised to include new treatment regimens

Central to the whole volume is a critique of the very idea of the "postcolonial" itself

and information scholars

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attempting to show how the consideration of Art Brut should lead to a revision of our theoretical and museological paradigms