The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States

(University of Pennsylvania Press) In this book, Greenhouse writes a political and literary history of the anthropology of American cities in the 1990s, where New Deal liberalism was still important and relevant. Greenhouse is chair of the department of anthropology at Princeton University.

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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