The Anthropology of Power (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cheater, Angela

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"The Anthropology of Power" presents case studies from a wide range of societies to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment and to question whether power is actually being transferred to the powerless. This collection draws on ethnographic material from Europe, the Middle East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas exploring how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in postcolonial and multicultural settings, from civil war to new communication technologies, from religious imperialism to transnational mining investments. It surveys the relationships between empowerment and economic development, gender and environmentalism. The contributors confront post-Foucauldian theoretical issues on the nature, distribution and balance of power, and ask whether the rhetoric of "empowerment" actually masks a lack of change in established power relations. This is a wide-ranging international collection featuring contributors from the UK, Portugal, Iceland, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134650484
• Artikelnr.: 42981874

Autorenporträt

Angela Cheater is the author of a number of influential books in social anthropology, including Social Anthropology: An Alternative Introduction (1986). She has taught social anthropology at the universities of Natal, Zimbabwe, Cape Town and Waikato.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Power in the postmodern era 2 Empowering ambiguities 3 The discursive
space of schooling: on the theories of power and empowerment in
multiculturalism and anti-racism 4 'Father did not answer that question':
power, gender and globalisation in Europe 5 The reach of the postcolonial
state: development, empowerment/disempowerment and technocracy 6 The
guardians of power: biodiversity and multiculturality in Colombia 7 The
dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral
resource development in Papua New Guinea 8 Land and re-empowerment: 'The
Waikato case' 9 Indigenisation as empowerment? Gender and race in the
empowerment discourse in Zimbabwe 10 Exploitation after Marx 11 Evading
state control: political protest and technology in Saudi Arabia 12
Authority versus power: a view from social anthropology 13 Speaking truth
to power? Some problems using ethnographic methods to influence the
formulation of housing policy in South Africa 14 Machiavellian empowerment
and disempowerment: the violent political changes in early
seventeenth-century Ethiopia