Gavin Smith

Confronting the Present (eBook, ePUB)

Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000180879
• Artikelnr.: 60861477

Autorenporträt

Gavin Smith University of Toronto

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Selective Traditions CHAPTER ONE Politically engaged social enquiry and images of society PART ll Cultural Differentiations CHAPTER TWO The production of culture in local rebellion CHAPTER THREE Secret agents, hidden meanings: domination and resistance re-examined PART III Modernity and New Socio-Economic Forms CHAPTER FOUR Knowing their place: regional economies and the social construction of place in Western Europe CHAPTER FIVE Towards an ethnographic method for the study of 'informalized' regional economies in Western Europe PART IV Disciplined Practices CHAPTER SIX Overlapping collectivities: Local concern, state welfare and social Membership CHAPTER SEVEN The dialectics of history and will: The Janus face of hegemonic processes