A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Nugent, David; Vincent, Joan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology's unique contribution to the study of politics. * Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond * Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead * Anthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470692936
• Artikelnr.: 38215649

Autorenporträt

David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology, Emory University. He is President-Elect, American Ethnological Society and North American Editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. He is the author of Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes (1997), and the editor of Locating Capitalism in Time and Space (2002). Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of numerous books and encyclopedia articles on political anthropology. Her works include Anthropology and Politics (1990, reissued 1995) and The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (Blackwell, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Synopsis of Contents viii
Preface xv
Notes on Contributors xvi
Introduction 1
Joan Vincent
1 Affective States 4
Ann Laura Stoler
2 After Socialism 21
Katherine Verdery
3 AIDS 37
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
4 Citizenship 55
Aihwa Ong
5 Cosmopolitanism 69
Ulf Hannerz
6 Development 86
Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
7 Displacement 107
Elizabeth Colson
8 Feminism 121
Malathi de Alwis
9 Gender, Race, and Class 135
Micaela di Leonardo
10 Genetic Citizenship 152
Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig
11 The Global City 168
Saskia Sassen
12 Globalization 179
Jonathan Friedman
13 Governing States 198
David Nugent
14 Hegemony 216
Gavin Smith
15 Human Rights 231
Richard Ashby Wilson
16 Identity 248
Arturo Escobar
17 Imagining Nations 267
Akhil Gupta
18 Infrapolitics 282
Steven Gregory
19 ''Mafias'' 303
Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider
20 Militarization 318
Catherine Lutz
21 Neoliberalism 332
John Gledhill
22 Popular Justice 349
Robert Gordon
23 Postcolonialism 367
K. Sivaramakrishnan
24 Power Topographies 383
James Ferguson
25 Race Technologies 400
Thomas Biolsi
26 Sovereignty 418
Caroline Humphrey
27 Transnational Civil Society 437
June Nash
28 Transnationality 448
Nina Glick Schiller
Index 468

Rezensionen

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

"A magnificent collection. The most engaged andimaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing theinherently political nature of everyday life." MichaelBurawoy, University of California, Berkeley

"What is impressive about this collection is the way manyauthors take received ideas from political science, politicalphilosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, bysubjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new andpowerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference." MarshallSahlins, University of Chicago

"The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which thisvolume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs fromdormant minds ... this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at itsmeticulous, dynamic, and demanding best ... we have here an eruditeanalysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of everyindividual person on our planet, and an inspired exploration of"things to come". This is scholarly, sophisticated,unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from theshams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much ofthe political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media- even by our elected "representatives" ... Thisis an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of theanthropology of politics for decades to come. All academiclibraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas presentchoice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of apositive revolution in political theory and practice."Reference Reviews