TY - BOOK ID - 78641630 TI - Up, down, and sideways : anthropologists trace the pathways of power AU - Stryker, Rachael AU - González, Roberto J. PY - 2014 SN - 1782384022 9781782384021 9781782384014 1782384014 9781785332234 1785332236 PB - New York : Berghahn, DB - UniCat KW - Political anthropology KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Anthropology, Political KW - Government, Primitive KW - Ethnology KW - Political science KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Political anthropology-Case studies. KW - Power (Social sciences)-Case studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641630 AB - Using a "vertical slice" approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions-from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential readi ER -