{"product_id":"back-to-america-identity-political-culture-and-the-tea-party-movement-anthropology-of-contemporary-north-america-9781496217592","title":"Back to America: Identity  Political Culture  and the Tea Party Movement (Anthropology of Contemporary North America)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBack to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party  one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in the United States and one that continues to influence American politics. Though often viewed as the brainchild of conservative billionaires and Fox News  the success of the Tea Party movement was as much  if not more  the result of everyday activists at the grassroots level. William H. Westermeyer traces how local Tea Party groups (LTPGs) create submerged spaces where participants fashion action-oriented collective and personal political identities forged in the context of cultural or figured worlds. These figured worlds allow people to establish meaningful links between their own lives and concerns  on the one hand  and the movements goals and narratives  on the other. Collectively  the production and circulation of the figured worlds within LTPGs provide the basis for subjectivities that often nurture political activism.  Westermeyer reveals that LTPGs are vibrant and independent local organizations that  while constantly drawing on nationally disseminated cultural images and discourses  are far from simple agents of the larger organizations and the media. Back to America offers a welcome anthropological approach to this important social movement and to our understanding of grassroots political activism writ large.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960610512949,"sku":"ByrdShop_1496217594","price":76.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781496217592.jpg?v=1788291362","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/back-to-america-identity-political-culture-and-the-tea-party-movement-anthropology-of-contemporary-north-america-9781496217592","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}