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The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique, editor Joan Vincent offers her readers a selection of classic and contemporary articles on the anthropology of politics. Her introduction, headnotes, and suggested readings make this an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and instructors alike.
Trade Review"The best and most provocative essays by anthropologists on politics, power, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This volume showcases the strengths of anthropological analysis: bringing detailed ethnographic and historical analysis to the understanding of the most pressing issues that contemporary societies face." Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico "Joan Vincent has a rare grasp of anthropology's past and vision of its future. The twenty-first-century renewal of political anthropology will be excellently served by her thoughtful assemblage of foundational texts, modern classics, recent achievements, and current controversies." Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University "In this incomparable volume, Joan Vincent has brilliantly compiled the key texts in the anthropological study of politics. Suitable as a textbook for the beginning student and as a reference work for the professional academic, it will appeal to scholars in many different disciplines. Not only does this volume provide readers with a genealogy of an anthropological approach to politics, it introduces or reacquaints them with some of its most important contemporary contributors." Akhil Gupta, Stanford University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Joan Vincent
Part I Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges 15
Introduction 17
Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767) 21
Adam Smith Free-Market Policies (1776) 21
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) 22
Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) 23
Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877) 24
Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) 24
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847) 24
James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) 25
Part II Classics and Classics Revisited 27
Introduction 29
1 Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) 34
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
2 Nuer Ethnicity Militarized 39
Sharon Elaine Hutchinson
3 ``The Bridge'': Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand 53
Max Gluckman
4 ``The Bridge'' Revisited 59
Ronald Frankenberg
5 Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization 65
Talal Asad
6 The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala 82
E. R. Leach
7 Stratagems and Spoils 90
F. G. Bailey
8 Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas 96
Victor W. Turner
9 Political Anthropology 102
Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden
10 New Proposals for Anthropologists 110
Kathleen Gough
11 National Liberation 120
Eric R. Wolf
Part III Imperial Times, Colonial Places 127
Introduction 129
12 From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony 133
Talal Asad
13 East of Said 143
Richard G. Fox
14 Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra 153
Ann Stoler
15 Culture of Terror ± Space of Death 172
Michael Taussig
16 Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat 187
William Roseberry
17 Of Revelation and Revolution 203
Jean and John Comaroff
18 Between Speech and Silence 213
Susan Gal
19 Facing Power ± Old Insights, New Questions 222
Eric R. Wolf
20 Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System 234
June Nash
Part IV Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium 255
Introduction 257
21 The New World Disorder 261
Benedict Anderson
22 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 271
Arjun Appadurai
23 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony 285
Jonathan Friedman
24 Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations 301
S. P. Reyna
25 Modernity at the Edge of Empire 313
David Nugent
26 Politics on the Periphery 325
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
27 Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans 338
Aihwa Ong
28 Long-distance Nationalism Defined 356
Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron
29 Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the ``Transition'' 366
Katherine Verdery
30 Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind 387
Caroline Humphrey
31 The Anti-politics Machine 399
James Ferguson
32 Peasants against Globalization 409
Marc Edelman
33 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 424
Paul Farmer
34 Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy 438
John Gledhill
35 Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality 452
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Index 460
