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  • - New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
    af Vincanne Adams
    304,95 - 953,95 kr.

    This ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans provides a sobering look at the fallout from the privatization of vital social services under neoliberal, or market-driven, governance.

  • - How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It
    af Vincanne Adams, Dr. Michelle & MD Perro
    308,95 kr.

    An examination into how industrial food is causing an epidemic of chronic illness amongst children - and what parents and doctors can do to try and prevent it.

  • af Vincanne Adams
    688,95 kr.

    Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "e;tigers of the snow,"e; as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "e;authentic"e; Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "e;Sherpa,"e; as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "e;authenticating"e; effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "e;deauthenticating"e; effects on anthropological representation.This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "e;virtual"e; identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

  • - What Counts in Global Health
    af Vincanne Adams
    368,95 - 1.031,95 kr.

    The contributors to Metrics use ethnographic evidence from around the globe to evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and the consequences of applying metrics to global health. Now the standard in measuring global health program success, metrics has far implications that extend beyond patients to the political and financial realms.

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