David Nugent

Broschiertes Buch

A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics

Beschreibung

A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics offers an unprecedented overview of the field, written by a breathtaking roster of contemporary scholars. This ambitious volume explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, militarization, and neoliberalism to identity politics and beyond - in the words of the very individuals who have contributed to the development of this important field. Each author reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead. The volume as a whole is written in an accessible manner, although each chapter is crafted in its author's own unique style. At the heart of the volume lies anthropology's distinctive genre: ethnography. Offering a comprehensive understanding of anthropology's unique contribution to the study of politics, A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics will set a new benchmark for the field and will undoubtedly spur students and scholars to new heights in the decades to come.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 901g
• ISBN-13: 9781405161909
• ISBN-10: 1405161906
• Artikelnr.: 22712781

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