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... applications. The importance of political economy in shaping anthropological theory is stressed. The organization and core arguments of the book are explained. dual use science political economy anthropological theory ...

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...The Fragment and the Whole This chapter of book explores the advantage that particular forms of anthropology have for comparative analysis and seeks to ground the study of the fragment theoretically. Anthropology is the only social science that reflects on Western ethnocentrism and takes...

... transformed elements of their wartime service into governmental research, policy, development, or intelligence work. The U.S. State and Defense Departments at times drew on anthropological expertise to implement foreign aid projects. Modernization theory helped rationalize foreign aid policies that often had...

... During the years after the war, many anthropologists transformed elements of their wartime service into governmental research, policy, development, or intelligence work. The U.S. State and Defense Departments at times drew on anthropological expertise to implement foreign aid projects...

... The introduction sets up the history of anthropology’s comparative approach, initiated by Mauss and Weber. It argues against striving for unified theories, though, resisting the growing tendency to define science as a method of model making based on variables and quantitative samples...

... This entry presents a genealogy of “acoustemology,” a 1992 coinage by the author to conjoin “acoustics” and “epistemology” and theorize sound as a way of knowing. The genealogy is traced theoretically as well as ethnographically. In terms of lineages of philosophy and social theory...

...Comparing Exclusion This chapter focuses on those who live in the mountainous margins of civilizational heartlands and, today, in the border areas of modern nation-states. These peoples have been the typical subjects of anthropological research because of their remote, relatively isolated...

... and this book itself. Encountered time and again in the field, the recurrent, emblematic nature of this story also introduces the notion that transplant operates as a kind of icon , made to condense and capture a core set of meanings about biomedicine, about national identity, and even about anthropological...