Showing papers by "George E. Marcus published in 1998"

Ethnography through thick and thin

Abstract: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Anthropology on the Move3Pt. 1An Evolving Proposal for Multi-Sited Research311Imagining the Whole: Ethnography's Contemporary Efforts to Situate Itself (1989)332Requirements for Ethnographies of Late-Twentieth-Century Modernity Worldwide (1991)573Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography (1995)794The Uses of Complicity in the Changing Mise-en-Scene of Anthropological Fieldwork (1997)105Pt. 2Traces in Parallel Ethnographic Projects1335Power on the Extreme Periphery: The Perspective of Tongan Elites in the Modern World System (1980)1356The Problem of the Unseen World of Wealth for the Rich: Toward an Ethnography of Complex Connections (1989)1527On Eccentricity (1995)161Pt. 3The Changing Conditions of Professional Culture in the Production of Ethnography1798On Ideologies of Reflexivity in Contemporary Efforts to Remake the Human Sciences (1994)1819Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and in Engagement with Others (1997)20310Sticking with Ethnography through Thick and Thin (1997)231Index255

Corporate futures : the diffusion of the culturally sensitive corporate form

Abstract: This is part of a series of annuals designed to probe cultural, institutional and geopolitical change as the 20th century closes. The books provide in-depth interviews with those closely involved with these changes. This volume focuses on the investment of corporations in the concept of culture, long considered the province of anthropologist or those involved in the humanistic disciplines. The idea of a "corporate culture" emerges, with its own organization, management policies, practices and ethos. The text examines this culture of corporations, looking at how it reflects self-contained communities or fragmented human existence in groups under conditions of postmodernity. Conversations with managers, financial and risk analysts and other participants in national and international organizations are used in an attempt to map the terrain of the present and navigate the uncertain future.

Linking Neuroscience to Political Intolerance and Political Judgment

Abstract: There is substantial evidence that intolerance arises from perceptions of difference. A prevailing view holds that even if intolerance is understandable as a defense mechanism, or as an attitude intended to ward off threatening groups and noxious activities, it often is the result of human irrationality and indulgence of prejudice. This conclusion is supported by studies that seem to demonstrate the apparent irrelevance of the actual level of threat to levels of intolerance. These studies show human actions attendant to diversity are caused by established convictions (i.e., prejudice) rather than by the degree of threat. However, informed by theoretical approaches provided by neuroscientists, we report findings that threat is, indeed, a provocative factor that modifies political tolerance in predictable ways. Previous studies defined threat as probabilistic assessments of the likelihood of bad events. When threat is defined as novelty and normative violations (i.e., as departures from expected, or normal, occurrence), then consistent relationships to intolerance are obtained.

Why Should Men Leave Great Fortunes to Their Children

Abstract: In an important 1988 article, legal historian John Langbein identified what he regarded as fundamental shifts in the contemporary ethos and practice of wealth transmission in America. Langbein wrote, Whereas of old wealth transmission from parents to children tended to center upon major items of patrimony such as the family farm or the family firm, today for the broad middle classes, wealth transmission centers on a radically different kind of asset: the investment in skills. In consequence, intergenerational wealth transmission no longer occurs primarily upon the death of the parents, but rather, when the children are growing up, hence, during the parents’ lifetimes (Langbein, 1988, p. 723).

Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis

Abstract: Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis. MICHAEL HERZFELD. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. viii + 333 pp., figures, notes, references, index.