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Culture, power, place : explorations in critical anthropology / edited by Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Anthropology--Methodology.
- Geographical perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power, and resistance.This colle
- Contents:
- Beyond "culture": space, identity, and the politics of difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson
- National geographic: the rooting of peoples and the territorialization of national identity among scholars and refugees / Liisa H. Malkki
- Seeing bifocally: media, place, culture / John Durham Peters
- State, territory, and national identity formation in the two Berlins, 1945-1995 / John Borneman
- Finding one's own place: Asian landscapes re-visioned in rural California / Karen Leonard
- The country and the city on the Copperbelt / James Ferguson
- Rethinking modernity: space and factory discipline in China / Lisa Rofel
- The song of the nonaligned world: transnational identities and the reinscription of space in late capitalism / Akhil Gupta
- Exile to compatriot: transformations in the social identity of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank / George E. Bisharat
- Third-worlding at home / Kristin Koptiuch
- The demonic place of the "not there": trademark rumors in the postindustrial imaginary / Rosemary J. Coombe
- Bombs, bikinis, and the popes of rock 'n' roll: reflections on resistance, the play of subordinations, and liberalism in Andalusia and academia, 1983-1995 / Richard Maddox
- The remaking of an Andalusian pilgrimage tradition: debates regarding visual (re)presentation and the meanings of "locality" in a global era / Mary M. Crain.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613062543
- 9781283062541
- 1283062542
- 9780822382089
- 0822382083
- OCLC:
- 191222187
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