Power and its disguises : anthropological perspectives on politics / John Gledhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gledhill, John.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political anthropology.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Pluto Press, 2000.

Summary:

'Gledhill manages to cover a lot of ground in drawing out the thematic and theoretical focuses of political anthropology, brilliantly giving them life through a wide variety of empirical examples. ... The book will serve as a very good introduction to political anthropology for any student of power and politics.' Journal of Peace ResearchIn this fully updated edition of Power and Its Disguises, John Gledhill explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view from below' and revealing forces that shape power relations behind the formal facade of state institutions. Examples are drawn from Brazil, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka, amongst others.

Contents:

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

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.

53

Brumfiel, E. 38.

Burdick, J. 195-6

bureaucracy

3

15

54-5

61

68

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

as an iron law of oligarchy, 189

in Islamic states, 60

of political party organization, 143

Byzantine empire

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.

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

119

120-2

199

233-4

local-level politics in, 117-8

local-level politics in, 129

Chinese empire

6

40

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

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

82

85.

89.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index.

ISBN:

9781783718627

1783718625

9781849641043

1849641048

9780585426327

0585426325

OCLC:

923330536