Peter Redfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Redfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Redfield |
| SIGNATURE | REDFIELD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Republic of Therapy
Forces of compassion
Suffering and charity have a long history. Both human sorrows and attempted remedies were familiar features of life in earlier eras and religious traditions, however, during the final decades of the twentieth century, natural disasters and civilian casualties of war transformed into humanitarian crises. In these recurring dramas presented by international media, an extensive network of interstate entities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) …
A Few of His Favorite Things
Taussig, Michael. My Cocaine Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 336 pp. For several decades now, Michael Taussig has been on his own anthropological odyssey, sailing away from the fleet to chart a stretch of foreboding darkness low on one horizon. Judging from reports, he has found a coastline there, a place of curling mist and whispering shadows where, as in any good folktale, things both are and aren't what they seem. In any ev…
Naked Science
Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge. Laura Nader. ed. New York: Routledge, 1996.318 pp
L'Illusion mythique
L'Illusion mythique. Jean-Louis Siran. Paris: Institut Synthglabo, 1998.127 pp., references
A Few of His Favorite Things
Taussig, Michael. My Cocaine Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 336 pp. For several decades now, Michael Taussig has been on his own anthropological odyssey, sailing away from the fleet to chart a stretch of foreboding darkness low on one horizon. Judging from reports, he has found a coastline there, a place of curling mist and whispering shadows where, as in any good folktale, things both are and aren't what they seem. In any ev…
Naked Science
Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge. Laura Nader. ed. New York: Routledge, 1996.318 pp
L'Illusion mythique
L'Illusion mythique. Jean-Louis Siran. Paris: Institut Synthglabo, 1998.127 pp., references
A Few of His Favorite Things
Taussig, Michael. My Cocaine Museum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 336 pp. For several decades now, Michael Taussig has been on his own anthropological odyssey, sailing away from the fleet to chart a stretch of foreboding darkness low on one horizon. Judging from reports, he has found a coastline there, a place of curling mist and whispering shadows where, as in any good folktale, things both are and aren't what they seem. In any ev…
Forces of compassion
Suffering and charity have a long history. Both human sorrows and attempted remedies were familiar features of life in earlier eras and religious traditions, however, during the final decades of the twentieth century, natural disasters and civilian casualties of war transformed into humanitarian crises. In these recurring dramas presented by international media, an extensive network of interstate entities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) …
The Republic of Therapy
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