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"In 1988, Scott Cook was a boarding school PE teacher responsible for the proper inflation of dodge balls. A year later, he was operating an underground strategic missile control center with 10 intercontinental nuclear weapons capable of obliterating an entire country. This unexpected journey took him from the serene hills of Virginia through months of intensive training on the California coast to the front lines of the Cold War, beneath the frozen plains of North Dakota. His frank, entertaining memoir describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an organization whose unofficial motto was "To err is human; to forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy.""--

"In 1988, Scott Cook was a boarding school PE teacher responsible for the proper inflation of dodge balls. A year later, he was operating an underground strategic missile control center with 10 intercontinental nuclear weapons capable of obliterating an entire country. This unexpected journey took him from the serene hills of Virginia through months of intensive training on the California coast to the front lines of the Cold War, beneath the frozen plains of North Dakota. His frank, entertaining memoir describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an organization whose unofficial motto was "To err is human; to forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy.""--

"Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three kinds of potentially realizable value - use, exchange, and symbolic - commodities reflect and affect various facets of humanity's sociocultural life. They have been investigated by knowledge producers ranging from Aristotle and Ibn Khaldun through Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx down to a whole host of twentieth-century economists and others like the anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski, and the storyteller, B. Traven. In this book noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and especially in his anthropological career. He undertakes this project in conjunction with a running interpretation of the contrasting approaches of Malinowski and Traven to the topic of commodity production and exchange in Mexico."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Teitipac Communities: Peasant-Artisans on the Hacienda's Periphery -- Chapter 2. Hacienda San Antonio Buenavista from Two Perspectives: Hacendado and Terrazguero -- Chapter 3. San Juan Teitipac: Metateros Here and There -- Chapter 4. San Sebastián Teitipac: Metateros and Civility -- Chapter 5. San Lorenzo Albarradas, Xaagá, and the Hacienda Regime -- Chapter 6 "Castellanos" as Plaiters and Weavers: San Lorenzo Albarradas and Xaagá -- Chapter 7. The Jalieza Communities: Peasant-Artisans with Mixed Crafts -- Chapter 8. Santa Cecilia Jalieza: Defending Homeland in Hostile Surroundings -- Chapter 9. Magdalena Ocotlán: From Terrazgueros to Artisanal Ejidatarios -- Chapter 10. Magdalena's Metateros: Servants of the Saints and the Market -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Foundations and Dimensions of Border Brick Culture -- The Reynoso Brothers and the Brick Industry in Ejido Los Longoria -- The Gas Line and the Capitalist Development of the Reynosa Brick Industry -- Brick Fever: the Periurban Ejidos and the Field Boss System -- Class Tensions, Collective Bargaining and Business Strategies -- After the Collapse: Attrition and Survival of the Wood-Firing Ladrilleras -- Survival of the Fittest: Gas-Firing Ladrilleras and Cross-Border Truckers -- The Present and Future of Handmade Brick for Texas