Sage Publications Cultural Anthropology: 4 (Sage Studies in Anthropology)

This Major Work is an authoritative overview of Cultural Anthropology in four volumes; i) Moorings: include articles -- by cultural anthropologists and others -- that have had a particularly forceful impact on the anthropological imagination in the last fifty years; ii) Modernities: explores the many ways cultural anthropologists have examined, critiqued and been part of modernist projects articles will work through topics such as nationalism, citizenship, human rights, etc.; iii) Emergence, explore anthropological work that has focused on the re-making of society and culture in the wake of massive change such as "globalization"; v) Engagements, examines engagements between anthropologists in different national and culltural contexts, engagements with other disciplines and engagements with the public sphere About the Author Kim Fortun is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research mainly focuses on the dynamics of the environmental field in different historical and geographic contexts. She is co-editor of the journal, Cultural Antropology. Mike Fortun is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As historian and anthropologist of science, his interest lie in the science and political economy of contemporary genomics. With Kim Fortun, he is co-editor of Cultural Anthropology.