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Reveals forces that shape power relations behind the formal facade of state institutions.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gledhill, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Sterling, VA : Pluto Press, 2000.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Temas:
Political anthropology.
Power (Social sciences)
Anthropologie politique.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Society.
Political anthropology
Politische Anthropologie
Anthropologie > Aspect économique.
Pouvoir (sciences sociales)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  • 1. Locating the political: a political anthropology for today
  • How not to use the West as a point of departure
  • The distinctiveness of the modern state
  • Wider implications of historical discontinuity
  • Political anthropology reconstituted
  • 2. The origins and limits of coercive power: the anthropology of stateless societies
  • The externalization of the political as the negation of power
  • Sexual politics in stateless societies
  • Civilization, mother of barbarism
  • 'Stateless societies' under the modern state 3. From hierarchy to surveillance: the politics of agrarian civilizations and the rise of the Western national state
  • Political systems in theories of European development
  • A specifically European dynamic?
  • Agrarian civilization outside Europe
  • 4. The political anthropology of colonialism: a study of domination and resistance
  • Structural- functionalist political anthropology as a child of its time
  • The colonial process as an object of analysis
  • Cracks in the structures: the anthropology of resistance
  • 5. Post- colonial states: legacies of history and pressures of modernity Regime variation in post- independence Africa
  • Deep politics: the state and civil society
  • Power relations in the shadow state
  • 'Democratization' in Latin America
  • Mexico: democratization versus the shadow state and militarization
  • Indigenous peoples and the state in Mexico and Guatemala
  • 6. From macro- structure to micro- process: anthropological analysis of political practice
  • Getting at structure through events
  • Politics as the activity of political men
  • The autonomy of the political field and its symbolic practices Insidious strategies of power
  • 7. Political process and global disorder : perspectives on contemporary conflict and violence
  • Expanding capitalism, declining empires
  • Cultural globalization and power
  • From the fantasies of Senderology to the roots of political violence in Peru
  • Sri Lanka: constructing new orders through violence
  • 8. Society against the modern state? The politics of social movements
  • Social movements theory: the need for scepticism
  • Alternative Modernities
  • Cultural politics and political constructions of culture Popular politics and the politicization of gender
  • 9. Anthropology and politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy
  • The politics of anthropological knowledge production: some initial
  • Acting on the basis of knowledge
  • Commitment at the grassroots
  • From knowledge to wisdom?
  • Power and its disguises
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • AbélÃ?s, M.,
  • 20-1
  • 145-7
  • academic politics 220-1
  • advocacy and participation, possible forms of 236-7
  • agrarian civilizations

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