Perilous States – Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation

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Encompassing a range of disciplines--notably anthropology, <BR>politics, history, comparative literature, and <BR>philosophy--the unprecedented annual publication "Late <BR>"Editions exposes unsettling dilemmas and unprecedented <BR>challenges facing cultural studies on the brink of the <BR>twenty-first century. Successive volumes will appear <BR>annually until the year 2000, each engaging the predicaments <BR>of particular institutions, nations, and persons at this <BR>point of social, cultural, and political change. The <BR>project will test the limits of scholarly conventions by <BR>finding new ways to expose cultural formations emerging from <BR>the maturation or exhaustion of once-powerful ideas whose <BR>validity is now deeply in question. <BR>"Perilous States, the first volume of "Late <BR>"Editions, presents conversations between American <BR>scholars, most of whom are anthropologists, and individuals <BR>situated amidst political and social upheaval. Pimarily but <BR>not exclusively from Eastern Europe, the cast includes <BR>Russian writers, Hungarian scientists and academics, Armenian <BR>politicians, Siberian religious and medical leaders, a Gypsy <BR>leader, a Polish poet, a French politician, and a white South <BR>African musician who is a self-styled Zulu. Their voices <BR>unite around themes of democracy, market economy, individual <BR>rights, and the reawakened force of suppressed ethnic and <BR>racial identities. <BR>To obtain fresh perspectives on these cultural and social <BR>transformations, the volumes will consist of in-depth <BR>conversations, relayed in essay form, between scholars and <BR>individuals in other cultures with whom they share <BR>affinities. Thisnovel approach blends the immediacy of <BR>interviews, the objectivity of journalism, and the <BR>intellectual rigor of scholarship. <BR>Contributors to this volume are Marjorie Balzer, Sam <BR>Beck, David B. Coplan, Michael M. J. Fischer, Nia Georges, <BR>Bruce Grant, Dougla

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780226504476
• Dimensioni: 233 x 18.82 x 166 mm Ø 580 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 400