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In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad About the Anthropology of Politics, Neoliberalism and Satire. Conducted via E-Mail Correspondence, November/December 2016

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Professor Angelique Haugerud at Rutgers University is not only known for her outstanding work in the anthropology of politics , satire, development, and neoliberalism , but also as a former editor of American Ethnologist (AE). In this conversation with Sindre Bangstad, Haugerud reflects on her early work on development and politics in Kenya in the late 1970s and early 1980s, her continuing research in that country, and her recent work on satirical activism against corporate power in the USA .

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Haugerud, A. (2017). In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad About the Anthropology of Politics, Neoliberalism and Satire. Conducted via E-Mail Correspondence, November/December 2016. In: Bangstad, S. (eds) Anthropology of Our Times. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53849-9_9

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