
America Observed
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"America Observed poses and answers a critical question for anthropology today: why do so few scholars from outside the United States write ethnographies about 'America', and what are the consequences of this lacuna?" ? Andrew P. Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University"This book serves to generate a much-needed discussion about the absence of international ethnographic research in the U.S. and about the nature of the discipline that discourages this kind of research. Furthermore, the ethnographies presented here teach us something substantial about 'American' culture and illustrate that ethnographic research undertaken by non-U.S. anthropologists can be particularly insightful." ? James Armstrong, SUNY Plattsburgh
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Virginia R. Dominguez and Jasmin Habib
PART I: ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN? THE US AS FIELDSITE
Chapter 1. Manhattan as a Magnet: Place and Circulation among Young Swedes
Helena Wulff
Chapter 2. Is It Un-American to Be Critical of Israel? Criticism and Fear in the US Context
Jasmin Habib
Chapter 3. Biosecurity in the US: "The Scientific" and "the American" in Critical Perspective"
Limor Samimian-Darash
Chapter 4. American Theater State: Reflections on Political Culture
Ulf Hannerz
Chapter 5. Observing American Gay Organizations and Voluntary Associations: An Outsider's Exposition
Moshe Shokeid
PART II: FROM THE INSIDE OUT? REFLECTIONS ON AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE US
Chapter 6. Who Cares? Why It's Odd and Why It's Not?
Geoffrey White
Chapter 7. Power and the Trafficking of Scholarship in International American Studies
Keiko Ikeda
Afterword: The Sounds of Silence: Commissions, Omissions, and Particularity in the Global Anthropology of the United States
Jane C. Desmond
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