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

Author: Joan Vincent
Publisher: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, ©2002.
Series: Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology, 3.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joan Vincent
ISBN: 0631224394 9780631224396 0631224408 9780631224402
OCLC Number: 47705746
Description: xi, 476 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Joan Vincent --
Part I: Prelude: The enlightenment and its challenges --
Civil society (1767) / Adam Ferguson --
Free-market policies (1776) / Adam Smith --
Perpetual peace (1795), Univeral 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) / Lewis 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 --
Part II: Classics and classics revisited --
Nuer politics: structure and system (1940) / E.E. Evans-Pritchard --
Nuer ethnicity militarized / Sharon Elaine Hutchinson --
"The bridge": analysis of a social situation in Zululand / Max Gluckman --
"The bridge" revisited / Ronald Frankenberg --
Market model, class structure and consent: a reconsideration of Swat political organization / Talal Asad --
The troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala / E.R. Leach --
Stratagems and spoils / F.G. Bailey --
Passages, margins, and poverty: religious symbols of communitas / Victor M. Turner --
Political anthropology / Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden --
New proposals for anthropologists / Kathleen Gough --
National liberation / Eric R. Wolf --
Part III: Imperial times, colonial places --
From the history of colonial anthropology to the anthropology of Western hegemony / Talal Asad --
East of Said / Richard G. Fox --
Perceptions of protest: defining the dangerous in colonial Sumatra / Ann Stoler --
Culture of terror, space of death / Michael Taussig --
Images of the peasant in the consciousness of the Venezuelan proletariat / William Roseberry --
Of revelation and revolution / Jean and John Comaroff --
Between speech and silence / Susan Gal --
Facing power: old insights, new questions / Eric R. Wolf --
Ethnographic aspects of the world capitalist system / June Nash --
Part IV: Cosmopolitics: confronting a new millennium --
The new world disorder / Benedict Anderson --
Grassroots globalization and the research imagination / Arjun Appadurai --
Transnationalization, socio-political disorder, and ethnification as expressions of declining global hegemony / Jonathan Friedman --
Deadly developments and phantasmagoric representations / S.P. Reyna --
Modernity at the edge of empire / David Nugent --
Politics on the periphery / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing --
Flexible citizenship among Chinese cosmopolitans / Aihwa Ong --
Long-distance nationalism defined / Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron --
Theorizing socialism: a prologue to the "transition" / Katherine Verdery --
Marx went away but Karl stayed behind / Caroline Humphrey --
The anti-politics machine / James Ferguson --
Peasants against globalization / Marc Edelman --
On suffering and structural violence: a view from below / Paul Farmer --
Anthropology and politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy / John Gledhill --
Thinking academic freedom in gendered post-coloniality / Gayatri Chkravorty Spivak.
Series Title: Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology, 3.
Responsibility: edited by Joan Vincent.
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