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Book SynopsisAnthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localised society or culture as its object of study. This title features essays that demonstrate how over the years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges.
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Culture, Power, Place is exciting, timely, and consequential. This fine book promises to be a contribution of real intellectual significance—and should attract a very large audience both within anthropology and in cultural studies and related fields. This is mature, provocative, well-grounded and imaginative scholarship of the highest quality.”—Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
“This collection presses forward the agenda of rethinking the anthropological keywords of ‘culture’ and ‘society,’ and towards an expansion of flexible yet rigorous ways of understanding the shifting terms of cultural tradition and political economy in the contemporary world.”—Orin Starn, Duke University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 1
Part I: Space, Culture, Identity
Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 33
National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees / Liisa H. Malkki 52
Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture / John Durham Peters 75
State, Territory, and National Identity Formation in the Two Berlins, 1945–1995 / John Borneman 93
Finding One's Own Place: Asian Landscapes Re-visioned in Rural California / Karen Leonard 118
The Country and the City on the Copperbelt / James Ferguson 137
Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline in China / Lisa Rofel 155
The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism / Akhil Gupta 179
Part II: Culture, Power, Resistance
Exile to Compatriot: Transformations in the Social Identity of Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank / George E. Bisharat 203
Third-Worlding at Home / Kristin Koptiuch 234
The Demonic Place of the "Not There": Trademark Rumors in the Postindustrial Imaginary / Rosemary J. Coombe 249
Bombs, Bikinis, and the Popes of Rock 'n' Roll: Reflections on Resistance, the Play of Subordinations, and Liberalism in Andalusia and Academia, 1983–1995 / Richard Maddox 277
The Remaking of an Andalusian Pilgrimage Tradition: Debates Regarding Visual (Re)presentation and the Meanings of "Locality" in a Global Era / Mary M. Crain 291
Works Cited 313
Index 347
Contributors 359
