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Confronting the Present
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anthropology of modern political engagement
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Author_Gavin Smith
Beacons
Capitalist Reproduction
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Civil Society
collective identity
Concrete Abstractions
critical anthropology
cultural anthropology
Disconnected
Disengage
Emilia Romagna
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ethnographic methodology
Face To Face
Follow
Hegemonic Fields
Hegemonic Processes
Hold
interdisciplinary social research
Italics Mine
La Oroya
Large Scale Factory
Militant Particularism
Payments
Personae
political collectivities
political subjectivity
Postwar
regional economic analysis
regionalism
resistance and domination
Scrambled
social citizenship
Social Membership
Social Reproduction
Social Subjects
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781859732052
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a politically relevant anthropology? This book examines these concerns in light of the author's shift from the study of rather distant people to people and places closer to home - a trend to be found within the discipline as a whole. How should anthropology respond to this change, as it increasingly finds itself in stamping grounds where other disciplines are already well-entrenched? How will work being done in anthropology intersect with that in other disciplines? Will anthropologists have anything to offer debates that have been ongoing in these other disciplines, such as those relating to social citizenship and collective identity, regionalism and the constitution of space and place, hegemony and resistance, political organization and cultural expression? Conversely, what can anthropologists learn from the way other disciplines formulate these issues and problems?Written to provoke discussion, this timely book aims to initiate a dialogue not only with anthropologists, but also with those in related disciplines who share a concern with people, politics and modernity. As well as anthropologists, the issues it tackles will be of interest to geographers, economists, political scientists, social historians and sociologists.
Gavin Smith University of Toronto
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