The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist...(展开全部)

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist...(展开全部)

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist...(展开全部)

A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statem...(展开全部)

A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statem...(展开全部)

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's onl...(展开全部)

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America from an "isolationist" nation into the world's onl...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)

阿尔弗雷德•W.麦考伊（Alfred W. McCoy），美国知名历史学家。生于1945年，1977年毕业于耶鲁大学，获历史学博士学位。现为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校历史学教授。2012年，耶鲁大学和耶鲁大学研究生院校友会联合授予麦考伊教授“威尔伯•克劳斯勋章”（Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal），表彰他“是研究东南亚历史的世界顶级历史学家，是研究菲律宾政治史、金三角毒品非法交易、地下犯罪集团和国际政治监控的专家”。著有《东南亚的海洛因政治》（The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, 1972）、《对刑讯的质疑：中情局从冷战到反恐战争以来的审讯》（A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on T...(展开全部)