{"product_id":"the-anthropology-of-politics-a-reader-in-ethnography-theory-and-critique-hardback-9780631224396","title":"The Anthropology of Politics; A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (Hardback) 9780631224396","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Anthropology of Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The best and most provocative essays by anthropologists on politics, power, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This volume showcases the strengths of anthropological analysis: bringing detailed ethnographic and historical analysis to the understanding of the most pressing issues that contemporary societies face.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eLouise Lamphere\u003c\/b\u003e, University of New Mexico  \u003cp\u003e\"Joan Vincent has a rare grasp of anthropology's past and vision of its future. The twenty-first-century renewal of political anthropology will be excellently served by her thoughtful assemblage of foundational texts, modern classics, recent achievements, and current controversies.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eUlf Hannerz\u003c\/b\u003e, Stockholm University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this incomparable volume, Joan Vincent has brilliantly compiled the key texts in the anthropological study of politics. Suitable as a textbook for the beginning student and as a reference work for the professional academic, it will appeal to scholars in many different disciplines. Not only does this volume provide readers with a genealogy of an anthropological approach to politics, it introduces or reacquaints them with some of its most important contemporary contributors.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eAkhil Gupta\u003c\/b\u003e, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoan Vincent (Edited by), J Vincent (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631224396, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 January 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e490 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3 cm, 0.966 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique\u003c\/i\u003e, editor Joan Vincent offers her readers a selection of classic and contemporary articles on the anthropology of politics. Her introduction, headnotes, and suggested readings make this an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and instructors alike.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction (\u003ci\u003eJoan Vincent\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e, Civil Society (1767).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Smith\u003c\/i\u003e, Free-Market Policies (1776).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImmanuel Kant\u003c\/i\u003e, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry Sumner Maine\u003c\/i\u003e, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLewis Henry Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e, The Property Career of Mankind (1877).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarl Marx\u003c\/i\u003e, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels\u003c\/i\u003e, The World Market (1847).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Mooney\u003c\/i\u003e, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Classics and Classics Revisited.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) (\u003ci\u003eE.E. Evans-Pritchard\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Nuer Ethnicity Militarized (\u003ci\u003eSharon Elaine Hutchinson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \"The Bridge\":Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand (\u003ci\u003eMax Gluckman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \"The Bridge\" Revisited (\u003ci\u003eRonald Frankenberg\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization (\u003ci\u003eTalal Asad\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala (\u003ci\u003eE. R. Leach\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Stratagems and Spoils (\u003ci\u003eF. G. Bailey\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas (\u003ci\u003eVictor W. Turner\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Political Anthropology (\u003ci\u003eMarc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. New Proposals for Anthropologists (\u003ci\u003eKathleen Gough\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. National Liberation (\u003ci\u003eEric R. Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Imperial Times, Colonial Places.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony (\u003ci\u003eTalal Asad\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. East of Said (\u003ci\u003eRichard G. Fox\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra (\u003ci\u003eAnn Stoler\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Culture of Terror – Space of Death (\u003ci\u003eMichael Taussig\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat (\u003ci\u003eWilliam Roseberry\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Of Revelation and Revolution (\u003ci\u003eJean and John Comaroff\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Between Speech and Silence (\u003ci\u003eSusan Gal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Facing Power – Old Insights, New Questions (\u003ci\u003eEric R. Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Ethnographic Aspects of The World Capitalist System (\u003ci\u003eJune Nash\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. The New World Disorder: (\u003ci\u003eBenedict Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination (\u003ci\u003eArjun Appadurai\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony (\u003ci\u003eJonathan Friedman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations (\u003ci\u003eS. P. Reyna\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Modernity at the Edge of Empire (\u003ci\u003eDavid Nugent\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Politics on the Periphery (\u003ci\u003eAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans (\u003ci\u003eAihwa Ong\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Long-distance Nationalism Defined (\u003ci\u003eNina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the \"Transition\" (\u003ci\u003eKatherine Verdery\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind (\u003ci\u003eCaroline Humphrey\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. The Anti-politics Machine (\u003ci\u003eJames Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Peasants against Globalization (\u003ci\u003eMarc Edelman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below (\u003ci\u003ePaul Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy (\u003ci\u003eJohn Gledhill\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality (\u003ci\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Archaeology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Archaeology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Archaeology%20%5BHD%5D%22\"\u003eHD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52405667561752,"sku":"9780631224396","price":109.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631224396.jpg?v=1784137164","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-anthropology-of-politics-a-reader-in-ethnography-theory-and-critique-hardback-9780631224396","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}