Up, Down, and Sideways ― Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power

Citing anthropologists as being in the best position with their historical, holistic, and cross-cultural perspective to explore authority, abuse of power, and the challenges facing the human race, and, further, to create alternatives that may transcend those challenges, Stryker, Gonzalez and their eight contributors examine debt, commerce, bureaucracy, dispossession, food, environment, family, truth, common sense, caring, and power. There are 10 chapters divided into three parts: studying wealth and power; studying environment and subsistence; studying relationships and bureaucracies. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Roberto J. Gonzalez is Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and author of several books including Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (Texas, 2001), American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain (Prickly Paradigm, 2009), and Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State (Left Coast, 2010). He co-produced the documentary film Losing Knowledge: 50 Years of Change and is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists.