The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can't Make Us Happy

By no means prior to have we tried to degree up to we do this present day. Why are we so enthusiastic about numbers? What can they honestly let us know? Too usually we strive to quantify what cannot really be measured. We count number humans, yet now not members. We count number examination effects instead of intelligence, gain claimants rather than poverty.

Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings

The indigenous inhabitants of the Ecuadorian Andes made massive political earnings throughout the Nineties within the wake of a dynamic wave of neighborhood activism. The circulate renegotiated land improvement legislation, elected indigenous applicants to nationwide place of work, and effectively fought for the constitutional redefinition of Ecuador as a kingdom of many cultures.

Ethnicity, Inc. (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)

In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff learn a brand new second within the historical past of human identification: its rampant commodification. via a wide-ranging exploration of the altering courting among tradition and the industry, they handle a urgent query: in which lies the way forward for ethnicity?

The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics

The Postmodern Scene is a chain of significant theorisations approximately key inventive and highbrow trends within the postmodern situation