Books by Emily Martin
“or a long time, anthropology has been associated with studying small communities over a long period of time. Emily Martin did something different: she was tracking the idea of flexibility, and the idea that Americans had of the immune system as an organising trope in American culture. She followed this idea through all sorts of sites, from alternative health to scientific labs, activists, corporate trainers, and saw how this idea came back again and again.” Read more...
The best books on Political Anthropology
Ruben Andersson, Social Scientist
Interviews where books by Emily Martin were recommended
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Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
by Mary Douglas -
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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
by Anna Tsing -
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The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
by James Ferguson -
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The Incarcerations: BK16 and the Search for Democracy in India
by Alpa Shah
The best books on Political Anthropology, recommended by Ruben Andersson
The best books on Political Anthropology, recommended by Ruben Andersson
Anthropologists look for cultural and political currents reflected in everyday behaviours, says Ruben Andersson, the Oxford academic and author of a new book about the contemporary obsession with self-protection, Age of Security. Here, he recommends five anthropology books that have influenced his work and writing—and reflects on the difficulties of recognising patterns in our own thinking.
