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A companion to the anthropology of politics / edited by David Nugent and Joan Vincent.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 2.
- Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political anthropology.
- Political customs and rites.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2007.
- Summary:
- This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology's unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead Anthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume.
- Contents:
- A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics
- Contents
- Synopsis of Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Affective States
- 2 After Socialism
- 3 AIDS
- 4 Citizenship
- 5 Cosmopolitanism
- 6 Development
- 7 Displacement
- 8 Feminism
- 9 Gender,Race,and Class
- 10 Genetic Citizenship
- 11 The Global City
- 12 Globalization
- 13 Governing States
- 14 Hegemony
- 15 Human Rights
- 16 Identity
- 17 Imagining Nations
- 18 Infrapolitics
- 19 ''Mafias ''
- 20 Militarization
- 21 Neoliberalism
- 22 Popular Justice
- 23 Postcolonialism
- 24 Power Topographies
- 25 Race Technologies
- 26 Sovereignty
- 27 Transnational Civil Society
- 28 Transnationality
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611309671
- 9781782684206
- 1782684204
- 9781405184793
- 1405184795
- 9781281309679
- 1281309672
- 9780470693681
- 0470693681
- 9780470692936
- 0470692936
- OCLC:
- 214281280
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