Power, legitimacy, historical legacies : a disenchanted political anthropology / Christian Giordano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giordano, Christian, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Freiburger sozialanthropologische Studien ; Bd. 43.

Freiburger sozialanthropologische Studien ; Band 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zürich [Switzerland] : LIT, [2015]

Summary:

The coherence of the various contributions presented in this book is determined by a distinct vision of political anthropology based on the interpretative approach of Max Weber and his successors, in particular Alfred Schütz. Accordingly, a "disenchanted political anthropology" does not conform to fashionable trends, but rather is shaped by the classics of social sciences, anthropology and sociology foremost. The disquieting allure of disenchanted anthropology lies precisely in its nonconformist and deeply sceptical "regard, étoigné," through which, by means of discomfiting empirical material and unconventional theoretic reasonings, it challenges some of Western society's certainties about both itself and societies classified as "other". But the ultimate goal of this book is precisely this unveiling of our faded idols deeply rooted in our common sense and in the current anthropological conformism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Interdependent Diversities: Self-Representations, Historical Regions and Global Challenges in Europe 17

Chapter 2 Dealing with the Past: The Mobilization of History in European Societies 35

Chapter 3 Disputed Historical Memories: Struggling for Recognition through Localities, Symbols, and Rituals 51

Chapter 4 Ethnic versus Cosmopolitan Regionalism: For a Political Anthropology of Local Identity Constructions in a Globalized World-System 69

Chapter 5 From the Crisis of Anthropological Representations to the Advent of Prefixes 83

Chapter 6 Plural Switzerland: Switching Identities in a Multicultural Nation 93

Chapter 7 Does Postsocialism in Eastern Europe Mirror Postcolonialism? The Legends of Revolution, Transition and Transformation after the Fall of the Berlin Wall 109

Chapter 8 The Social Logic of Informality: The Rationale Underlying Personalized Relationships, Organizations and Coalitions - A Look at Southeast European and Mediterranean Societies 123

Chapter 9 The Mafia: a Historical Legacy in Global Society. A Disenchanted View of Organized Crime 135

Chapter 10 Terrorism and Literature in Italy: From Bandiera Rossa to the Roman Noir 155

Chapter 11 Caudillos and Campesinos in Anthropological Knowledge and Literary Creation. The Case of Paraguayan Society 167

Chapter 12 The Culture of Mediterranean Honor: Social Differentiation, Status and Reputation in the Public Sphere 181

Chapter 13 Modernization, Land Reforms and Ethnic Tensions: Scenarios in Central and Eastern Europe 197

Chapter 14 Multiple Modernities in Bulgaria: Social Strategies of Capitalists Entrepreneurs in the Agrarian Sector 217

Chapter 15 Celebrating Urban Diversity in a Rainbow Nation: Political Management of Ethno-Cultural Differences in a Malaysian City 233

Chapter 16 Differentiated Citizenship and Legal Pluralism: Law and Religion in Peninsular Malaysia 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783643801951

3643801955

OCLC:

907172745

Publisher Number:

99964003369

Online:

Inhaltsverzeichnis