The Anthropology of Politics

In The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique, editor Joan Vincent offers her readers a selection of classic and contemporary articles on the anthropology of politics. Her introduction, headnotes, and suggested readings make this an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and instructors alike.

ISBN 0631224408   Pages 488 ISBN13 9780631224402 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 866 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Publication date 02 Jan 2002   Height (mm) 245 Library of Congress GN492.A593, GN492.A593   Width (mm) 173 DEWEY 306.2   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate

		Acknowledgments
		Introduction by Joan Vincent		1
Pt. I		Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges		15
		Civil Society (1767) by Adam Ferguson		21
		Free-Market Policies (1776) by Adam Smith		21
		Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) by Immanuel Kant		22
		The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) by Henry Sumner Maine		23
		The Property Career of Mankind (1877) by Lawis Henry Morgan		24
		Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) by Karl Marx		24
		The World Market (1847) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels		24
		The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) by James Mooney		25
Pt. II		Classics and Classics Revisited		27
1		Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) by E. E. Evans-Pritchard		34
2		Nuer Ethnicity Militarized by Sharon Elaine Hutchinson		39
3		"The Bridge": Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand by Max Gluckman		53
4		"The Bridge" Revisited by Ronald Frankenberg		59
5		Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization by Talal Asad		65
6		The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala by E. R. Leach		82
7		Stratagems and Spoils by F. G. Bailey		90
8		Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas by Victor W. Turner		96
9		Political Anthropology by Marc J. Swartz and Victor W. Turner and Arthur Tuden		102
10		New Proposals for Anthropologists by Kathleen Gough		110
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"The best and most provocative essays by anthropologists on politics, power, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This volume showcases the strengths of anthropological analysis: bringing detailed ethnographic and historical analysis to the understanding of the most pressing issues that contemporary societies face." Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico "Joan Vincent has a rare grasp of anthropology's past and vision of its future. The twenty-first-century renewal of political anthropology will be excellently served by her thoughtful assemblage of foundational texts, modern classics, recent achievements, and current controversies." Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University "In this incomparable volume, Joan Vincent has brilliantly compiled the key texts in the anthropological study of politics. Suitable as a textbook for the beginning student and as a reference work for the professional academic, it will appeal to scholars in many different disciplines. Not only does this volume provide readers with a genealogy of an anthropological approach to politics, it introduces or reacquaints them with some of its most important contemporary contributors." Akhil Gupta, Stanford University

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