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Through vivid ethnographic analyses, this book examines the range of expressions of the popular suspicion of power -including forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory, and urban legends - illuminating them as ways of making sense of the world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of modernization. Editor(s): Sanders, Todd. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526. . 2003. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780822330240
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Title: Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies ...
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
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In this collection leading anthropologists reveal the variations and commonalities in conspiratorial thinking or occult cosmologies around the globe—in Korea, Tanzania, Mozambique, New York City, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nigeria, and Orange County, California. The contributors chronicle how people express profound suspicions of the United Nations, the state, political parties, police, courts, international financial institutions, banks, traders and shopkeepers, media, churches, intellectuals, and the wealthy. Rather than focusing on the veracity of these convictions, Transparency and Conspiracy investigates who believes what and why. It makes a compelling argument against the dismissal of conspiracy theories and occult cosmologies as antimodern, irrational oversimplifications, showing how these beliefs render the world more complex by calling attention to its contradictions and proposing alternative ways of understanding it.
Contributors. Misty Bastian, Karen McCarthy Brown, Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff, Susan Harding, Daniel Hellinger, Caroline Humphrey, Laurel Kendall, Todd Sanders, Albert Schrauwers, Kathleen Stewart, Harry G. West
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