Nuclear Rites: Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War - Softcover

Gusterson, Hugh

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ISBN 10: 0520213734 ISBN 13: 9780520213739

Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR, 1998

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Hugh Gusterson is a Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University. He is the author of The Insecure American and coeditor of Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong, both from UC Press.

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"An extremely important work. . . . It demonstrates the power that ethnographic analysis can have when directed at an examination of our own society's central nervous system."—Faye Ginsburg, author of Contested Lives

"Essential reading for anyone trying to understand what Cold War science was in all its cultural aspects and what this same science now in transformation might yet be."—George E. Marcus, co-editor of The Traffic in Culture

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"An extremely important work. . . . It demonstrates the power that ethnographic analysis can have when directed at an examination of our own society's central nervous system."—Faye Ginsburg, author of Contested Lives

"Essential reading for anyone trying to understand what Cold War science was in all its cultural aspects and what this same science now in transformation might yet be."—George E. Marcus, co-editor of The Traffic in Culture

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• Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0520213734
• ISBN 13: 9780520213739
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
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