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The Anthropology of Politics
A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique
"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." "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." "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."
—Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico
—Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University
—Akhil Gupta, Stanford University
Joan Vincent (Edited by)
9780631224402, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 2 January 2002
496 pages
24.6 x 17.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.726 kg
In The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique, 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.
Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Part I Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges 15 Introduction 17 Part II Classics and Classics Revisited 27 Introduction 29 1 Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) 34 2 Nuer Ethnicity Militarized 39 3 ``The Bridge'': Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand 53 4 ``The Bridge'' Revisited 59 5 Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization 65 6 The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala 82 7 Stratagems and Spoils 90 8 Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas 96 9 Political Anthropology 102 10 New Proposals for Anthropologists 110 11 National Liberation 120 Part III Imperial Times, Colonial Places 127 12 From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony 133 13 East of Said 143 14 Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra 153 15 Culture of Terror ± Space of Death 172 16 Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat 187 17 Of Revelation and Revolution 203 18 Between Speech and Silence 213 19 Facing Power ± Old Insights, New Questions 222 20 Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System 234 Part IV Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium 255 21 The New World Disorder 261 22 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 271 Arjun Appadurai 23 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony 285 24 Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations 301 25 Modernity at the Edge of Empire 313 26 Politics on the Periphery 325 27 Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans 338 28 Long-distance Nationalism Defined 356 29 Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the ``Transition'' 366 30 Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind 387 31 The Anti-politics Machine 399 32 Peasants against Globalization 409 33 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 424 34 Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy 438 35 Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality 452 Index 460
Joan Vincent
Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767) 21
Adam Smith Free-Market Policies (1776) 21
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) 22
Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) 23
Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877) 24
Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) 24
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847) 24
James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) 25
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Sharon Elaine Hutchinson
Max Gluckman
Ronald Frankenberg
Talal Asad
E. R. Leach
F. G. Bailey
Victor W. Turner
Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden
Kathleen Gough
Eric R. Wolf
Introduction 129
Talal Asad
Richard G. Fox
Ann Stoler
Michael Taussig
William Roseberry
Jean and John Comaroff
Susan Gal
Eric R. Wolf
June Nash
Introduction 257
Benedict Anderson
Jonathan Friedman
S. P. Reyna
David Nugent
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Aihwa Ong
Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron
Katherine Verdery
Caroline Humphrey
James Ferguson
Marc Edelman
Paul Farmer
John Gledhill
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
