Nuclear Rites

Nuclear Rites
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 0520213734
ISBN-13 : 9780520213739
Rating : 4/5 (739 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nuclear Rites by : Hugh Gusterson

Download or read book Nuclear Rites written by Hugh Gusterson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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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