Up Down and Sideways

<p> Using a vertical slice approach anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions-from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. <em>Up Down and </em><em>Sideways </em>is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture global financial crises food insecurity indigenous land and resource appropriation the mismanagement of health care andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.</p>