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Gledhill John
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Titolo: |
Power and its disguises : anthropological perspectives on politics / / John Gledhill
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Sterling, VA, : Pluto Press, 2000 |
Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
Disciplina: | 306.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Political anthropology |
Power (Social sciences) | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- 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 -- Abélès, M., -- 20-1 -- 145-7 -- academic politics 220-1 -- advocacy and participation, possible forms of 236-7 -- agrarian civilizations -- 45 -- role of the state in, 51 -- alternative modernities -- in China 20 -- in work of Arturo Escobar, 196 -- Amazonia -- nature of chieftainship in, 27-30 -- rights of indigenous versus non-indigenous people in, 214 -- Anderson, B. -- 73 -- 75-6 -- 153-4 -- 161 -- Anderson, P. -- 48 -- 49 -- 52 -- Angola 98-9 -- anthropologist as hero 228 -- apartheid -- 70-1 -- 79-80 -- and Zionist Churches, 80 -- political economy of, 72 -- Appadurai, A. -- 161-2 -- 164 -- critique of by Aihwa Ong, 165-6 -- applied anthropology, politics of 226-7 -- APRA [American Popular Revolutionary Alliance] -- 93 -- 197 -- Arabs versus Berbers in -- 85 -- politics in, 97-8 -- Argentina, Peronism in 93 -- Arrom, S. 205 -- Asad, T. -- 18-20 -- 69-70 -- authoritarianism -- bureaucratic, 62 -- bureaucratic, 94 -- in African opposition movements, 102 -- in post-Soviet successor states, 155 -- of colonial states, 73. | |
of mestizo political culture in Peru and Mexico, 202 -- rehabilitation of, in Africa, 101 -- US ideological support for, 166 -- Ayubi, N. -- 60 -- 62 -- 165 -- Bailey, F.G. 136-8 -- Bakker, J.I. 64 -- Bamberger, J. 30 -- Banks, M. 155 -- Barth, F. 136 -- Basch, L., N. Glick Schiller and C. Szanton Blanc -- 21 -- 163 -- Bayart, J-F. -- 95 -- 100-2 -- 188 -- Bensabat Kleinberg, R. 112 -- Bhabha, H. 67 -- biopower 149 -- Bloch, M. 147 -- Blondet, C. 208-10 -- Bolivia -- election of General Hugo Banzer in, 203 -- ethnic relations in, 201-2 -- indigenous political movements in, 202-3 -- indigenous population in, 119 -- katarismo as a fusion of ethnic and class politics in, 203 -- politics of former tin miners in, 203-4 -- tin miners in, 86 -- women's politics in, 210-12 -- Bolívar, Simón 75 -- Bosnia -- 45 -- 168 -- Bougainville, conflict in 86 -- Bourdieu, P. -- 131 -- 138-44 -- 148-9 -- 151-2 -- 191 -- 193 -- 195 -- definition of habitus, 139 -- elitism of, 144 -- on class, 141 -- on doxa, 140 -- on structuralist objectivism, 139 -- on symbolic power and misrecognition, 144 -- theory of political representationof, 142-4 -- use of metaphor of capital by, 138 -- bourgeois revolution -- in Britain, 49 -- in France, 50 -- in Marx's writings on France, 51 -- Bourgois, P. 158 -- boy-inseminating practices 35 -- Brazil -- as a participant in the world arms trade, 161 -- Christian base communities in, 195-6 -- infant death in, 229-30 -- Movement of the Landless [MST] in, 108 -- problems of Cardoso government in, 107-8 -- removal of Collor de Mello, 106 -- removal of Collor de Mello, 107 -- researchof Nancy Scheper-Hughes in, 228 -- transition from military rule in, 107 -- Vargas regime in, 98 -- Workers' Party [PT] in, 107 -- Workers' Party [PT] in, 228 -- Brenner, R. -- 49 -- 53 -- Brumfiel, E. 38. | |
Burdick, J. 195-6 -- bureaucracy -- 3 -- 15 -- 54-5 -- 61 -- 68 -- 75-6 -- 95 -- 99 -- 102 -- 112 -- and fixing of ethnic identities, 76 -- and rise of nationalist leaderships in the colonies, 76 -- historical bureaucratic societies, 12 -- in absolutist states, 54 -- in imperial China, 51 -- in imperial China, 58-9 -- in pre-modern imperial states, 50 -- turns ethnicity into an administrative category, 182 -- bureaucratization -- 75 -- 190 -- 193 -- as an iron law of oligarchy, 189 -- in Islamic states, 60 -- of political party organization, 143 -- Byzantine empire -- 45 -- 59 -- caciques [bosses] -- and community politics in Chiapas, 117-8 -- in general Mexican politics, 112-3 -- in Michoacán, 231 -- Cameroon -- politics in, 95 -- politics in, 102 -- witchcraft and sorcery in, 103 -- Cammack, P. -- 93 -- 94 -- 107 -- Camp, R. 114 -- Cancian, F. 129 -- capillary power -- 150 -- 152 -- capitalism -- theories of transition to, 48-51 -- de-emphasized by Giddens in favour of industrialism, 56 -- cargo cults -- 68-9 -- 85-6 -- Carmack, R. 123 -- Carrier, J. 46 -- Castañeda, J. 107 -- Castells, M. -- 164-5 -- 189 -- caudillos [revolutionary chieftains in Mexico] -- 111 -- 112-3 -- 114 -- Chagnon, N. 30 -- Chant, S. 206 -- Chazan, N. et al. -- 87-8 -- 94-101 -- Chiapas -- 31 -- 89 -- 111 -- 119 -- 120-2 -- 199 -- 233-4 -- local-level politics in, 117-8 -- local-level politics in, 129 -- Chinese empire -- 6 -- 40 -- 51 -- 51 -- 58-9 -- 58 -- and Buddhism, 59 -- and nomads on its periphery, 39 -- as a capstone state, 55 -- as a world system, 59 -- measures against feudalization in, 51 -- measures against feudalization in, 58 -- Christian base communities, internal contradictions of 195-6 -- Christianity -- and class struggle, 52 -- and Kwaio of Solomon Islands, 83 -- and multiple acephalous states system in Europe, 55. | |
and politics in Mexico, 128 -- and village politics in Mexico, 117 -- in European development, 52-3 -- indigenous forms of in Latin America, 84 -- Methodism, 81-3 -- protestant evangelicals in Guatemala, 123 -- Zionism, 80 -- Zionism, 84 -- civil society -- and civic consciousness in Africa, 101 -- and deep politics of resistance to the state, 100 -- and deep politics of resistance to the state, 126 -- and post-colonial states, 73 -- and shadow state in Africa, 105 -- and state in Africa, 101-3 -- and state in Europe, 54-5 -- and the state inSouthern Europe, 128-9 -- as private sphere distinguished from public, 18 -- in Islamic world, 60 -- in Sri Lanka, 181 -- in Western political theory, 13 -- in Western political theory, 18 -- in work of Stanley Diamond, 23 -- project to reshape of Guatemalan military, 123 -- structured by hegemonic classifications, 200 -- classes on paper -- 141 -- 191 -- Clastres, P. -- 11-12 -- 27-30 -- 36 -- rejection of universality of coercive power by, 11 -- Clifford, J. 238-9 -- Cochabamba, Bolivia 201-2 -- Cold War -- 56 -- 219-20 -- Rorty's defence of, 217 -- Collier, G. -- 117-8 -- 129 -- Colombia -- role of oil companies in, 225 -- state crisis in, 108 -- colonial capitalism -- impact of on peasant economy in Indochina, 74 -- in Africa, 71-2 -- colonialism -- and anthropologists, 1-4 -- and anthropologists, 69-71 -- and indigenous rebellions in Latin America, 85 -- and objectification of culture, 82 -- and the creation of artificial political units, 5-6 -- and transformation of politics in India, 64 -- citizenship under, 73 -- creation of new classes 75 -- in Indochina, 76 -- legacy of in Guyana, 90 -- old, distinguished from nineteenth century imperialism, 56 -- political factors in economics of, 72 -- Comaroff, Jean 79-84 -- Comaroff, Jean and John -- 68 -- 82 -- 85. | |
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Titolo autorizzato: | Power and its disguises ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-78371-862-5 |
1-84964-104-8 | |
0-585-42632-5 | |
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Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
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