A01=John Gledhill
Author_John Gledhill
Category=JHM
Colonialism
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Political Anthropology
Power
Surveillance
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- ISBN 9780745316857
- Weight: 353g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2000
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book 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.
Examples are drawn from Brazil, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka, amongst others.
John Gledhill is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the managing editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology and the author of Power and Its Disguises (Pluto Press, 2000).
