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Anthropology Politics And The State
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Author : Jonathan Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-19
Anthropology Politics And The State written by Jonathan Spencer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-19 with Social Science categories.
In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11.
Anthropology Politics And The State South Asian Edition
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Author : Jonathan Spencer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01-23
Anthropology Politics And The State South Asian Edition written by Jonathan Spencer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-23 with categories.
In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11.
Society Against The State
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Author : Pierre Clastres
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-29
Society Against The State written by Pierre Clastres and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Philosophy categories.
In this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among all the possible modes of political organization, did we come to choose the monolithic State model and its accompanying regimes of coercion? As Clastres shows, other and different regimes do indeed exist, and they existed long before ours — regimes in which power, though it manifests itself everywhere, is nonetheless noncoercive. In such societies, political culture, and cultural practices generally, are not only not submissive to the State model, but they actively avert it, rendering impossible the very conditions in which coercive power and the State could arise. How then could our own “societies of the State” ever have arisen from these rich and complex stateless societies, and why? Clastres brilliantly and imaginatively addresses these questions, meditating on the peculiar shape and dynamics of so-called “primitive societies,” and especially on the discourses with which “civilized” (i.e., political, economic, literate) peoples have not ceased to reduce and contain them. He refutes outright the idea that the State is the ultimate and logical density of all societies. On the contrary, Clastres develops a whole alternate and always affirmative political technology based on values such as leisure, prestige, and generosity. Through individual essays he explores and deftly situates the anarchistic political and social roles of storytelling, homosexuality, jokes, ruinous gift-giving, and the torturous ritual marking of the body, placing them within an economy of power and desire very different from our own, one whose most fundamental goal is to celebrate life while rendering the rise of despotic power impossible. Though power itself is shown to be inseparable from the richest and most complex forms of social life, the State is seen as a specific but grotesque aberration peculiar only to certain societies, not least of which is our own. Not for sale in the U.K. and British Commonwealth, South Africa, Burma, Jordan, and Iraq.
Origins Of The State
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Author : Ronald Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues
Release Date : 1978
Origins Of The State written by Ronald Cohen and has been published by Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Political Science categories.
Political Anthropology
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Author : S. Lee Seaton
language : en
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Release Date : 1979
Political Anthropology written by S. Lee Seaton and has been published by De Gruyter Mouton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Ethnology categories.
Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
The Anthropology Of The State
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Author : Aradhana Sharma
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2009-02-09
The Anthropology Of The State written by Aradhana Sharma and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-09 with Social Science categories.
This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of “the state”. Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the “state”. Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.
Engaged Anthropology
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Author : Stuart Kirsch
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-03-30
Engaged Anthropology written by Stuart Kirsch and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with Social Science categories.
Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples fighting for their environment, land rights, and political sovereignty. Including both short interventions and collaborations spanning decades, it recounts interactions with lawyers and courts, nongovernmental organizations, scientific experts, and transnational corporations. This unflinchingly honest account addresses the unexamined “backstage” of engaged anthropology. Coming at a time when some question the viability of the discipline, the message of this powerful and original work is especially welcome, as it not only promotes a new way of doing anthropology, but also compellingly articulates a new rationale for why anthropology matters.
Power Community And The State
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Author : Monique Nuijten
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2003
Power Community And The State written by Monique Nuijten and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.
Thinking Beyond The State
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Author : Marc Abélès
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
Thinking Beyond The State written by Marc Abélès and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with Philosophy categories.
The French scholar Marc Abélès is one of the leading political and philosophical anthropologists of our time. He is perhaps the leading anthropologist writing on the state and globalization. Thinking beyond the State, a distillation of his work to date, is a superb introduction to his contributions to both anthropology and political philosophy. Abélès observes that while interdependence and interconnection have become characteristic features of our globalized era, there is no indication that a concomitant evolution in thinking about political systems has occurred. The state remains the shield—for both the Right and the Left—against the turbulent effects of globalization. According to Abélès, we live in a geopolitical universe that, in many respects, reproduces alienating logics. His book, therefore, is a primer on how to see beyond the state. It is also a testament to anthropology’s centrality and importance in any analysis of the global human predicament. Thinking beyond the State will find wide application in anthropology, political science and philosophy courses dealing with the state and globalization.
Ethnographies Of The State In Central Asia
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Author : Madeleine Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Ethnographies Of The State In Central Asia written by Madeleine Reeves and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with History categories.
With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in settings that range from the local to the transnational, the mundane to the spectacular, to provide a unique perspective on how politics is performed in everyday life.