Vincanne Adams

Gebundenes Buch

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith

New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

Beschreibung

This ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans provides a sobering look at the fallout from the privatization of vital social services under neoliberal, or market-driven, governance.

Autor

Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She has written and edited numerous books in medical anthropology, including Sex and Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective (coedited with Stacy Leigh Pigg) also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354345
• ISBN-10: 0822354349
• Artikelnr.: 36146637