Para-Sites: A Casebook Against Cynical Reason

The "alternative" cultural producers interviewed in this volume, including artists, filmmakers, and writers, claim to be challenging and resisting the "mainstream." Contributors to this volume question whether they are parasites, cleverly exploiting the system that supports them or whether they are creating "para-sites"independent new spaces of critical awareness alongside or on the periphery of the systems they serve. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

George E. Marcus is a professor and the chair of the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. He is the coauthor of Anthropology as Cultural Critique, among other books, and was the inaugural editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology.