Bøger af Orin Starn

A young American art historian in Venice finds herself caught up in an art world sensation. The stakes are high. So are the risk of clashing ambitions over previously unknown paintings attributed to the founding genius of Renaissance art. In one image an Egyptian martyr saint is a black warrior in armor, in the other a white knight. Both by Giotto? One or the other? Neither?

This book examines the career of Tiger Woods, from child star to global sports celebrity. Starn shows that while the scandal following the revelation of Tiger's infidelities was like many similar media-generated scandals of recent years, by examining the way Woods was seen afterwards, we can learn a lot about race and sex in contemporary America.

Presents ethnography of peasant communities in Peru caught between the government and the Shining Path. This book chronicles the historical conditions that led to the formation of the rondas, the social and geographical expansion of the movement, and its gradual decline in the 1990s.