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WHERE DID ANTHROPOLOGY GO?
What can anthropology tell us about the world we live in? It is very good at finding out what makes cultures different but does it retreat from asking what makes them alike? Laurie Taylor reflects on why the work of current anthropologists is often absent from debates in our wider culture about the contemporary world we live in, with Maurice Bloch Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.
MASCULINITY IN THE FIFTIES
What did it take to be a 'real man' in the 1950s? Professor James Gilbert examines this issue in his new book Men in The Middle: Searching For Masculinity in the 1950s and debates with Laurie Taylor how the attitudes and behaviours uncovered by Dr Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s established a far more complex portrait of the American male than the iconic images of John Wayne and James Dean.
Additional information:
Essays on Cultural Transmission
Maurice Bloch
Publisher: Berg
ISBN 1845202872
Professor James Gilbert
Distinguished University Professor and founder of the Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland.
Men In The Middle: Searching For Masculinity In The 1950s
James Gilbert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226293246
The Good Things (side 2, track 2)
Composer: Liebert-Mitchum-Barnes
Performer: John Wayne
LP: America, Why I love her - John Wayne
Label: RCA LSP4 4828
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