Anthropology, the Intellectuals and the Gulf War (Paperback)

As a college student (at Goldsmith's College, London) and cultural essayist, Patrick Wilcken takes a critical look at the involvement -- or lack thereof -- of anthropologists and other intellectuals in public debates on the Gulf War. Wilcken seeks to place debates about anthropology's trajectory within the wider context of challenges to intellectual authority at the end of the twentieth century.