Perilous states : conversations on culture, politics, and nation /
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993. |
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| Description: | viii, 381 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Late editions, 1070-8987 ; 1 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1552446 |
| Summary: | Encompassing a range of disciplines--notably anthropology,<br> politics, history, comparative literature, and<br> philosophy--the unprecedented annual publication Late <br> Editions exposes unsettling dilemmas and unprecedented<br> challenges facing cultural studies on the brink of the<br> twenty-first century. Successive volumes will appear<br> annually until the year 2000, each engaging the predicaments<br> of particular institutions, nations, and persons at this<br> point of social, cultural, and political change. The<br> project will test the limits of scholarly conventions by<br> finding new ways to expose cultural formations emerging from<br> the maturation or exhaustion of once-powerful ideas whose<br> validity is now deeply in question.<br> <br> Perilous States, the first volume of Late <br> Editions, presents conversations between American<br> scholars, most of whom are anthropologists, and individuals<br> situated amidst political and social upheaval. Pimarily but<br> not exclusively from Eastern Europe, the cast includes<br> Russian writers, Hungarian scientists and academics, Armenian<br> politicians, Siberian religious and medical leaders, a Gypsy<br> leader, a Polish poet, a French politician, and a white South<br> African musician who is a self-styled Zulu. Their voices<br> unite around themes of democracy, market economy, individual<br> rights, and the reawakened force of suppressed ethnic and<br> racial identities.<br> <br> To obtain fresh perspectives on these cultural and social<br> transformations, the volumes will consist of in-depth<br> conversations, relayed in essay form, between scholars and<br> individuals in other cultures with whom they share<br> affinities. This novel approach blends the immediacy of<br> interviews, the objectivity of journalism, and the<br> intellectual rigor of scholarship.<br> <br> Contributors to this volume are Marjorie Balzer, Sam<br> Beck, David B. Coplan, Michael M. J. Fischer, Nia Georges,<br> Bruce Grant, Douglas R. Holmes, Stella Gregorian, George E.<br> Marcus, Kathryn Milun, Eleni Papagaroufali, Paul Rabinow,<br> Julie Taylor, and Tom White. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 381 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226504468 0226504476 |