West, Harry C., and Todd Sanders, eds. Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Perspectives on Political Science, June, 2003 by Hanson, Bertil L.

Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press 316 pp., $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3024-5 paper Publication Date: April 2003

Anthropologists, long admired for understanding distant tribal peoples, have compassion for indigenous cultures engulfed by a rising tide of foreign internationals and globalization. People living in borderline, outlying backwood villages and shabby habitats suspect developments are being foisted on them by alien phantoms. This compilation of papers given in a May 1999 London School of Economics workshop pulls together observations of nine commendably reliable anthropologists and political scientists, including New School University's Harry West, who covered Mozambique villagers, and Cambridge's Todd Sanders, who discussed Tanzanians.

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