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Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis is an autoethnography that examines societies and institutions on how they function in an age of socio-ecological crises. It focuses on the steps involved in becoming a radical anthropologist and impact of societal and institutional settings as a scholar-activist.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Making of a Radical Anthropologist
1 - Immigration and Naturalization: From Peru to the United States and then to Australia
2 - The Sixties and the Aircraft Industry Company: Being Politicized within the Bowels of the Corporation during the Sixties
3 - Roman Catholicism: Leaving the Womb of Holy Mother the Church
4 - The Corporatization of Academia: From the Bush Leagues to an Elite Australian University
Part II: Studying Societies and Institutions
5 - Studies in Religion: Ethnogaphic Studies among the Levites of Utah and and African American Spiritual Churches
6 - Socio-Political and Religious Life in East Germany: Observations of a Fulbright Scholar and Ethnographer
7 - Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the US, UK, and Australia: Hanging Out with the 'Quacks'
8 -- The Australian Climate Movement: Coming to Grips with the Ecological Crisis Down Under and Globally
9 -Towards Democratic Eco-Socialism as an Alternative World System
Epilogue: Retirement: Refusing to Retire from Life
References
Index
About the author
Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Summary
Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis is an autoethnography that examines societies and institutions on how they function in an age of socio-ecological crises. It focuses on the steps involved in becoming a radical anthropologist and impact of societal and institutional settings as a scholar-activist.