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Confronting the present : towards a politically engaged anthropology / Gavin Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Gavin A.
- Series:
- Global issues 1354-3644
- Global issues, 1354-3644
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- History--Philosophy.
- History.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 296 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999.
- Contents:
- Part I Selective Traditions 17
- Chapter 1 Politically engaged social enquiry and images of society 19
- Part II Cultural Differentiations 51
- Chapter 2 The production of culture in local rebellion 53
- Chapter 3 Secret agents, hidden meanings: domination and resistance re-examined 88
- Part III Modernity and New Socio-Economic Forms 131
- Chapter 4 Knowing their place: regional economies and the social construction of place in Western Europe 133
- Chapter 5 Towards an ethnographic method for the study of 'informalized' regional economies in Western Europe 167
- Part IV Disciplined Practices 193
- Chapter 6 Overlapping collectivities: Local concern, state welfare and social membership 195
- Chapter 7 The dialectics of history and will: The Janus face of hegemonic processes 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859732003
- 1859732054
- OCLC:
- 41364674
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