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Culture, power, place : explorations in critical anthropology

Author: Akhil Gupta; James Ferguson
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997.
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Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Culture, power, place.
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)645856373
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Akhil Gupta; James Ferguson
ISBN: 0822319403 9780822319405 0822319349 9780822319344
OCLC Number: 36170570
Description: viii, 361 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Beyond "culture": space, identity, and the politics of difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson --
National geographic: the rooting of peoples and the territorialization of national identity among scholars and refugees / Liisa H. Malkki --
Seeing bifocally: media, place, culture / John Durham Peters --
State, territory, and national identity formation in the two Berlins, 1945-1995 / John Borneman --
Finding one's own place: Asian landscapes re-visioned in rural California / Karen Leonard --
The country and the city on the Copperbelt / James Ferguson --
Rethinking modernity: space and factory discipline in China / Lisa Rofel --
The song of the nonaligned world: transnational identities and the reinscription of space in late capitalism / Akhil Gupta --
Exile to compatriot: transformations in the social identity of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank / George E. Bisharat --
Third-worlding at home / Kristin Koptiuch --
The demonic place of the "not there": trademark rumors in the postindustrial imaginary / Rosemary J. Coombe --
Bombs, bikinis, and the popes of rock 'n' roll: reflections on resistance, the play of subordinations, and liberalism in Andalusia and academia, 1983-1995 / Richard Maddox --
The remaking of an Andalusian pilgrimage tradition: debates regarding visual (re)presentation and the meanings of "locality" in a global era / Mary M. Crain.
Responsibility: edited by Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson.

Abstract:

Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power, and resistance. This collection of both new and well-known essays begins by critically exploring the concepts of locality and community; first, as they have had an impact on contemporary global understandings of displacement and mobility, and, second, as they have had a part in defining identity and subjectivity itself. With sites of discussion ranging from a democratic Spain to a Puerto Rican barrio in North Philadelphia, from Burundian Hutu refugees in Tanzania to Asian landscapes in rural California, from the silk factories of Hangzhou to the long-sought-after home of the Palestinians, these essays examine the interplay between changing schemes of categorization and the discourses of difference on which these concepts are based. The effect of the placeless mass media on our understanding of place - and the forces that make certain identities viable in the world and others not - are also discussed, as are the intertwining of place-making, identity, and resistance as they interact with the meaning and consumption of signs. Finally, this volume offers a self-reflective look at the social and political location of anthropologists in relation to the questions of culture, power, and place - the effect of their participation in what was once seen as their descriptions of these constructions.

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