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Informationen zum Autor Rachael Stryker is Assistant Professor in the department of Human Development and Women’s Studies at California State University, East Bay. Her work comparatively explores emotion socialization, with a focus on attachment formation and representation, and her publications include The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family (Cornell, 2010), as well as articles for the Childhood , International Migration and Children and Youth Services Review journals. Roberto J. Gon z ález is Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and author of several books including Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (Texas, 2001), American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain (Prickly Paradigm, 2009), and Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State (Left Coast, 2010). He co-produced the documentary film Losing Knowledge: 50 Years of Change and is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists. Klappentext It is the definitive work summarizing and applying Laura Nader’s anthropological theories. It provides contemporary anthropological examples of "studying up, down, and sideways". It demonstrates how anthropology can be used to address urgent 21st century challenges. It addresses a wide range of contemporary topics including politics, the environment, economics, food, families, health care, and debt. Zusammenfassung Up! Down! & Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debt culture! global financial crises! food insecurity! indigenous land & resource appropriation! the mismanagement of health care! & corporate surrogacy within family life. Essential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Laura Nader Introduction: On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways: What's at Stake? Roberto J. González and Rachael Stryker PART I: STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER Chapter 1. On Debt: Tracking the Shifting Role of the Debtor in U.S. Bankruptcy Legal Practice Linda Coco Chapter 2. On Commerce: Analyzing the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998 Jay Ou Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy: Excessively Up at the International Labour Organisation Ellen Hertz PART II: STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE Chapter 4. On Dispossession: The Work of Studying Up, Down, and Sideways in Guatemala's Indigenous Land Rights Movements Liza Grandia Chapter 5. On Food: Manufacturing Food Insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico Roberto J. González Chapter 6. On Environment: The "Broker State," Peruvian Hydrocarbons Policy, and the Camisea Gas Project Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto PART III: STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES Chapter 7. On Family: Adoptive Parenting Up, Down, and Sideways Rachael Stryker Chapter 8. On Truth: The Repressed Memory Wars from Top to Bottom Robyn Kliger Chapter 9. On Common Sense: Lessons on Starting Over from Post-Soviet Ukraine Monica Eppinger Chapter 10. On Caring: Solidarity Anthropology (or, How to Keep Health Care from Becoming Science Fiction) Adrienne Pine On Power: Concluding Comments Barbara Rose Johnston, Roberto J. González, and Rachael Stryker Notes on Contributors References ...
