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Controlling ProcessesLectures and Reflections\nAuthor(s): Laura Nader\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501789281, 978-1501789281\nSynopsis\nControlling Processes offers a penetrating anthropological analysis of how power operates through cultural mechanisms in agrarian and modern industrial societies.\n\nDrawing on decades of research and teaching, Laura Nader explores:\n\n The multiple meanings and ideological frameworks embedded in dominant conceptions of science, technology, progress, energy, and the environment.\n A compelling critique of groupthink, illuminated through George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, revealing how consensus can mask coercion.\n The systemic oppression of women through body politics and the global diffusion of patriarchal norms.\n Cultural relativism and the politics of representation, with incisive discussions of Orientalism, Islam, and the West's pos.
Controlling Processes
Controlling ProcessesLectures and Reflections\nAuthor(s): Laura Nader\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501789281, 978-1501789281\nSynopsis\nControlling Processes offers a penetrating anthropological analysis of how power operates through cultural mechanisms in agrarian and modern industrial societies.\n\nDrawing on decades of research and teaching, Laura Nader explores:\n\n The multiple meanings and ideological frameworks embedded in dominant conceptions of science, technology, progress, energy, and the environment.\n A compelling critique of groupthink, illuminated through George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, revealing how consensus can mask coercion.\n The systemic oppression of women through body politics and the global diffusion of patriarchal norms.\n Cultural relativism and the politics of representation, with incisive discussions of Orientalism, Islam, and the West's pos.
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