Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis is an autoethnography that examines societies and institutions on how they function in an age of socio-ecological crises. It focuses on the steps involved in becoming a radical anthropologist and impact of societal and institutional settings as a scholar-activist.
Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis is an autoethnography that examines societies and institutions on how they function in an age of socio-ecological crises. It focuses on the steps involved in becoming a radical anthropologist and impact of societal and institutional settings as a scholar-activist.
Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Hans was a Fulbright Scholar in at Humboldt University in East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic in 1988-1989. He has taught at several US universities, including George Peabody College for Teachers, St. John's University, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of California - Berkeley, Arizona State University, and at two Australian universities, namely the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.
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Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The Making of a Radical Anthropologist 1 - Immigration and Naturalization: From Peru to the United States and then to Australia 2 - The Sixties and the Aircraft Industry Company: Being Politicized within the Bowels of the Corporation during the Sixties 3 - Roman Catholicism: Leaving the Womb of Holy Mother the Church 4 - The Corporatization of Academia: From the Bush Leagues to an Elite Australian University Part II: Studying Societies and Institutions 5 - Studies in Religion: Ethnogaphic Studies among the Levites of Utah and and African American Spiritual Churches 6 - Socio-Political and Religious Life in East Germany: Observations of a Fulbright Scholar and Ethnographer 7 - Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the US, UK, and Australia: Hanging Out with the 'Quacks' 8 -- The Australian Climate Movement: Coming to Grips with the Ecological Crisis Down Under and Globally 9 -Towards Democratic Eco-Socialism as an Alternative World System Epilogue: Retirement: Refusing to Retire from Life References Index
Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The Making of a Radical Anthropologist 1 - Immigration and Naturalization: From Peru to the United States and then to Australia 2 - The Sixties and the Aircraft Industry Company: Being Politicized within the Bowels of the Corporation during the Sixties 3 - Roman Catholicism: Leaving the Womb of Holy Mother the Church 4 - The Corporatization of Academia: From the Bush Leagues to an Elite Australian University Part II: Studying Societies and Institutions 5 - Studies in Religion: Ethnogaphic Studies among the Levites of Utah and and African American Spiritual Churches 6 - Socio-Political and Religious Life in East Germany: Observations of a Fulbright Scholar and Ethnographer 7 - Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the US, UK, and Australia: Hanging Out with the 'Quacks' 8 -- The Australian Climate Movement: Coming to Grips with the Ecological Crisis Down Under and Globally 9 -Towards Democratic Eco-Socialism as an Alternative World System Epilogue: Retirement: Refusing to Retire from Life References Index
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