Para-Sites
A Casebook against Cynical Reason

- Contents

George E. Marcus
Introduction
George E. Marcus
1. "With a Hammer, a Gouge, and a Woodblock": The Work of Art and Medicine in the Age of Social Retraumatization—the Texas Woodcut Art of Dr. Eric Avery
Michael M. J. Fischer
2. Expatriating Culture, Writing Thailand
Kim Fortun, Jeff Petry, and Mike Fortun
3. Performing on a Fault Line: The Making(s) of a South African Spy Novel and Other Stories
Jennifer A. Law
4. Fashioning Women: The Dressmaker as Cultural Producer in Soviet Russia
Olga Vainshtein
5. Academics and the Production of an Intellectual Discourse of Modernity in Russia
Alexei Elfimov
6. Technology, Television, and Myth: Reportajes de Alvarado and the Story of Nuevo León
Marie Theresa Hernandez
7. The Work of Markets: Filming within Indian Mediascapes, 1997
Kim and Mike Fortun
8. Museum in a Hat
Ron Burnett
9. La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France: "From the Singular to the Manifold"
Gudrun Klein
Looking Forward to Late Editions 8, Zeroing In: Y2000
10. If Derrida Is the Gómez-Peña of Philosophy, What Are the Genres of Social Science? Just Gaming: The Y2K Computer Bug and Other Uncertainties, a Critical Simulation Game
Michael M. J. Fischer
Looking Back to Late Editions 5, Corporate Futures
11. Commercializing Outer Space: The SATWG Stories
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Contributors
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Art: Art--General Studies
Geography: Cultural and Historical Geography
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