Harry G. West / Todd Sanders

Transparency and Conspiracy

Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
Herausgeber: West, Harry G

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Transparency and Conspiracy" connects with a central question presently before the field of anthropology and globalization studies: how to interpret the varied cultural forms which alienation from modernity is taking today."--Don Robotham, City University of New York Graduate Center

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330240
• ISBN-10: 0822330245
• Artikelnr.: 22269212

Autorenporträt

Harry G. West and Todd Sanders, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Power Revealed and Concealed in the New World Order / Todd Sanders and
Harry G. West 1
1. Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World / Laurel Kendall
38
2. "Diabolic Realities": Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and
"Ritual Murder" in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media / Misty
L. Bastian 65
3. "Who Rules Us Now?" Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the
1994 Mozambican Elections / Harry G. West 92
4. Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order
Indonesia / Albert Schrauwers 125
5. Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in
Millennial Tanzania / Todd Sanders 148
6. Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist
Metahistories / Caroline Humphrey 175
7. Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics / Daniel
Hellinger 204
8. Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of
Power / Karen McCarthy Brown 233
9. Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in
Millennial America / Susan Harding and Kathleen Stewart 258
Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An
Afterword / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 287
Contributors 301
Index 305