{"product_id":"culture-power-place-9780822319405","title":"Culture Power Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropology 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCulture, Power, Place\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era \/ Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Space, Culture, Identity \u003cbr\u003e Beyond \"Culture\": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference \/ Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 33\u003cbr\u003e National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees \/ Liisa H. Malkki 52\u003cbr\u003e Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture \/ John Durham Peters 75\u003cbr\u003e State, Territory, and National Identity Formation in the Two Berlins, 1945–1995 \/ John Borneman 93\u003cbr\u003e Finding One's Own Place: Asian Landscapes Re-visioned in Rural California \/ Karen Leonard 118\u003cbr\u003e The Country and the City on the Copperbelt \/ James Ferguson 137\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline in China \/ Lisa Rofel 155\u003cbr\u003e The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism \/ Akhil Gupta 179\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Culture, Power, Resistance \u003cbr\u003e Exile to Compatriot: Transformations in the Social Identity of Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank \/ George E. Bisharat 203\u003cbr\u003e Third-Worlding at Home \/ Kristin Koptiuch 234\u003cbr\u003e The Demonic Place of the \"Not There\": Trademark Rumors in the Postindustrial Imaginary \/ Rosemary J. Coombe 249\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 313\u003cbr\u003e Index 347\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 359","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406019305815,"sku":"9780822319405","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822319405.jpg?v=1730494263","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-power-place-9780822319405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}