The anthropology of politics : a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vincent, Joan (edt_f)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, c2002.
Edition:1 st. ed.
Series:Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology / Parker Shipton ; 3
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Joan Vincent
  • Pt. I. Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges
  • Civil Society (1767) / Adam Ferguson
  • Free-Market Policies (1776) / Adam Smith
  • Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) / Immanuel Kant
  • The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) / Henry Sumner Maine
  • The Property Career of Mankind (1877) / Lawis Henry Morgan
  • Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) / Karl Marx
  • The World Market (1847) / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) / James Mooney
  • Pt. II. Classics and Classics Revisited
  • 1. Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) / E. E. Evans-Pritchard
  • 2. Nuer Ethnicity Militarized / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson
  • 3. "The Bridge": Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand / Max Gluckman
  • 4. "The Bridge" Revisited / Ronald Frankenberg
  • 5. Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization / Talal Asad
  • 6. The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala / E. R. Leach
  • 7. Stratagems and Spoils / F. G. Bailey
  • 8. Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas / Victor W. Turner
  • 9. Political Anthropology / Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner and Arthur Tuden
  • 10. New Proposals for Anthropologists / Kathleen Gough
  • 11. National Liberation / Eric R. Wolf
  • Pt. III. Imperial Times, Colonial Places
  • 12. From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony / Talal Asad
  • 13. East of Said / Richard G. Fox
  • 14. Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra / Ann Stoler
  • 15. Culture of Terror - Space of Death / Michael Taussig
  • 16. Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat / William Roseberry
  • 17. Of Revelation and Revolution / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
  • 18. Between Speech and Silence / Susan Gal
  • 19. Facing Power - Old Insights, New Questions / Eric R. Wolf
  • 20. Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System / June Nash
  • Pt. IV. Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium
  • 21. The New World Disorder / Benedict Anderson
  • 22. Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination / Arjun Appadurai
  • 23. Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony / Jonathan Friedman
  • 24. Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations / S. P. Reyna
  • 25. Modernity at the Edge of Empire / David Nugent
  • 26. Politics on the Periphery / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
  • 27. Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans / Aihwa Ong
  • 28. Long-distance Nationalism Defined / Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron
  • 29. Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the "Transition" / Katherine Verdery
  • 30. Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind / Caroline Humphrey
  • 31. The Anti-politics Machine / James Ferguson
  • 32. Peasants against Globalization / Marc Edelman
  • 33. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below / Paul Farmer
  • 34. Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy / John Gledhill
  • 35. Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.