{"product_id":"perilous-states-conversations-on-culture-politics-and-nation-9780226504476","title":"Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): George E. Marcus\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncompassing a range of disciplines-notably anthropology, \u003cbr\u003e politics, history, comparative literature, and\u003cbr\u003e philosophy-the unprecedented annual publication \u003ci\u003eLate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEditions\u003c\/i\u003e exposes unsettling dilemmas and unprecedented\u003cbr\u003e challenges facing cultural studies on the brink of the\u003cbr\u003e twenty-first century. Successive volumes will appear\u003cbr\u003e annually until the year 2000, each engaging the predicaments\u003cbr\u003e of particular institutions, nations, and persons at this\u003cbr\u003e point of social, cultural, and political change. The\u003cbr\u003e project will test the limits of scholarly conventions by\u003cbr\u003e finding new ways to expose cultural formations emerging from\u003cbr\u003e the maturation or exhaustion of once-powerful ideas whose\u003cbr\u003e validity is now deeply in question. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePerilous States, \u003c\/i\u003e the first volume of \u003ci\u003eLate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEditions, \u003c\/i\u003e presents conversations between American\u003cbr\u003e scholars, most of whom are anthropologists, and individuals\u003cbr\u003e situated amidst political and social upheaval. Pimarily but\u003cbr\u003e not exclusively from Eastern Europe, the cast includes\u003cbr\u003e Russian writers, Hungarian scientists and academics, Armenian\u003cbr\u003e politicians, Siberian religious and medical leaders, a Gypsy\u003cbr\u003e leader, a Polish poet, a French politician, and a white South\u003cbr\u003e African musician who is a self-styled Zulu. Their voices\u003cbr\u003e unite around themes of democracy, market economy, individual\u003cbr\u003e rights, and the reawakened force of suppressed ethnic and\u003cbr\u003e racial identities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To obtain fresh perspectives on these cultural and social\u003cbr\u003e transformations, the volumes will consist of in-depth\u003cbr\u003e conversations, relayed in essay form, between scholars and\u003cbr\u003e individuals in other cultures with whom they share\u003cbr\u003e affinities. This novel approach blends the immediacy of\u003cbr\u003e interviews, the objectivity of journalism, and the\u003cbr\u003e intellectual rigor of scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors to this volume are Marjorie Balzer, Sam\u003cbr\u003e Beck, David B. Coplan, Michael M. J. Fischer, Nia Georges, \u003cbr\u003e Bruce Grant, Douglas R. Holmes, Stella Gregorian, George E.\u003cbr\u003e Marcus, Kathryn Milun, Eleni Papagaroufali, Paul Rabinow, \u003cbr\u003e Julie Taylor, and Tom White.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591758626967,"sku":"9780226504476","price":4374.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226504476.webp?v=1774974408","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/perilous-states-conversations-on-culture-politics-and-nation-9780226504476","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}