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Catherine Lutz is an American anthropologist and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University. She is...
ISBN #
11
Brown University faculty
Position:President • Anthropologist
Harvard University • Swarthmore College
Academic degree:Sociology • Philosophiae Doctor
Area of science:Critical theory • Photography • Ethnography • Cultural history
Professions and applied sciences:Radio
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Sport:Questions
The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are prominent figures in psychological anthropology, and they write about recent developments in this field. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, the early practitioners in the forties and fifties concentrated on studying cross-cultural variation ...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
364
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
052142609X
EAN Code
9780521426091
ISBN #
10
Carjacked is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile's contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 t...
Author
Catherine Lutz, Anne Lutz Fernandez
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
272
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Trade
ISBN #
0230618138
EAN Code
9780230618138
ISBN #
7
Breaking Ranks brings a new and deeply personal perspective to the war in Iraq by looking into the lives of six veterans who turned against the war they helped to fight. Based on extensive interviews with each of the six, the book relates why they enlisted, their experiences in training and in early...
Author
Matthew Gutmann, Catherine Lutz
Binding
Paperback
Pages
234
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN #
0520266382
EAN Code
9780520266384
ISBN #
9
A look at Fayetteville, North Carolina, home to Fort Bragg, that poses the question,'Are we all military dependents?'Fayetteville has earned the nicknames of Fatalville and Fayettenam. Unusual and not-sounusual features of the town include gross income inequalities, an extraordinarily high incidence...
Author
Catherine A. Lutz
Binding
Paperback
Pages
326
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN #
0807055093
EAN Code
9780807055090
ISBN #
6
Depicted variously as heroes, villains, or victims, America's teachers find themselves at the center of a sometimes nasty policy debate. Yet, while politicians, reformers, and pundits contribute to the cacophony that serves as our national conversation about education, those who teach our children e...
Author
Anne Lutz Fernandez, Catherine Lutz
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Teachers College Press
ISBN #
0807757365
EAN Code
9780807757369
ISBN #
5
Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings. In this collection of...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
228
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521388686
EAN Code
9780521388689
ISBN #
4
For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine, in purporting to teach us about distant cult...
Author
Catherine A. Lutz, Jane L. Collins
Binding
Paperback
Pages
328
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
ISBN #
0226497240
EAN Code
9780226497242
ISBN #
3
A quarter of a million U.S. troops are massed in over seven hundred major official overseas airbases around the world. In the past decade, the Pentagon has formulated and enacted a plan to realign, or reconfigure, its bases in keeping with new doctrines of pre-emption and intensified concern with st...
Author
Catherine Lutz
Binding
Paperback
Pages
378
Publisher
NYU Press
ISBN #
0814752446
EAN Code
9780814752449
ISBN #
1