Culture, Economy, Power
Anthropology as Critique, Anthropology as Praxis
Published on 4. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
319 pages
978-0-7914-5290-5 (ISBN)
Description
Confronts major questions facing anthropology, Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminism, and history.
Grounded in a conviction that anthropological knowledge implies critique and that engaging in anthropology is also ultimately an act of praxis, various contributors explore the ways in which the precepts of Marxism continue to illuminate and enhance our understanding of culture, economy, and politics. They focus on the question of epistemology to examine the process of anthropological intellectual production in different national settings and analyze the ways in which hierarchies of power and forms of state domination figure in the formation of subjectivities in different ethnographic contexts. The authors also reflect upon how class, gender, ethnicity, racialized forms of ethnicity, as well as regional and national identities, are configured through the relationships involved in making a living under late capitalism.
Grounded in a conviction that anthropological knowledge implies critique and that engaging in anthropology is also ultimately an act of praxis, various contributors explore the ways in which the precepts of Marxism continue to illuminate and enhance our understanding of culture, economy, and politics. They focus on the question of epistemology to examine the process of anthropological intellectual production in different national settings and analyze the ways in which hierarchies of power and forms of state domination figure in the formation of subjectivities in different ethnographic contexts. The authors also reflect upon how class, gender, ethnicity, racialized forms of ethnicity, as well as regional and national identities, are configured through the relationships involved in making a living under late capitalism.
Reviews / Votes
"Anthropology has, until recently, often been all materialism or all culture. The articles here make an important contribution to the integration of the two. Many of the chapters represent very significant innovations in approaching questions of memory, discourse, inequality, and globalization. The collection is particularly unique and significant in its contribution to the analysis of anthropology and power." - Frances Abrahamer Rothstein, coeditor of Anthropology and the Global Factory: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late Twentieth CenturyMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5290-5 (9780791452905)
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Persons
Winnie Lem is Associate Professor of Comparative Development Studies at Trent University and the author of Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity, and Praxis in Rural Languedoc, also published by SUNY Press. Belinda Leach is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guelph.
Content
1. Introduction
Winnie Lem and Belinda Leach
Part 1: Nations and Knowledge
2. Bicentrism, Culture, and the Political Economy of Sociocultural Anthropology in English Canada
Thomas Dunk
3. The Political Economy of Political Economy in Spanish Anthropology
Susana Narotzky
4. Anthropological Debates and the Crisis of Mexican Nationalism
Guillermo de la Pena
5. Political Economy in the United States
William Roseberry
6. "A Small Discipline": The Embattled Place of Anthropology in a Massified British Higher Education Sector
John Gledhill
Part 2: States and Subjects
7. Sentiment and Structure: Nation and State
Dipankar Gupta
8. Communists Communists Everywhere!: Forgetting the Past and Living with History in Ecuador
Steve Striffler
9. "We Were the Strongest Ones Here": Transformed Livelihoods in Contemporary Spain
Claudia Vicencio
10. The Italian Post-Communist Left and Unemployment: Finding a New Position on Labor
Michael Blim
11. The Language of Contention in Liberal Ecuador
A. Kim Clark
Part 3: Hegemonies and Histories
12. The Decline of Patriarchy? The Political Economy of Patriarchy: Maquiladoras in Yucatan, Mexico
Marie France Labrecque
13. Remembering "The Ancient Ones": Memory, Hegemony, and the Shadows of State Terror in the Argentinean Chaco
Gaston Gordillo
14. Class, Discipline, and the Politics of Opposition in Ontario
Belinda Leach
15. Militant Particularism and Cultural Struggles as Cape Breton Burns Again
Pauline Gardiner Barber
16. Acquiescence and Quiescence: Gender and Politics in Rural Languedoc
Winnie Lem
17. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes: Identity, Livelihood, and the Politics of Survival in the Bigoudennie, France
Charles R. Menzies
18. Out of Site: The Horizons of Collective Identity
Gavin Smith
References
Contributors
Index
Winnie Lem and Belinda Leach
Part 1: Nations and Knowledge
2. Bicentrism, Culture, and the Political Economy of Sociocultural Anthropology in English Canada
Thomas Dunk
3. The Political Economy of Political Economy in Spanish Anthropology
Susana Narotzky
4. Anthropological Debates and the Crisis of Mexican Nationalism
Guillermo de la Pena
5. Political Economy in the United States
William Roseberry
6. "A Small Discipline": The Embattled Place of Anthropology in a Massified British Higher Education Sector
John Gledhill
Part 2: States and Subjects
7. Sentiment and Structure: Nation and State
Dipankar Gupta
8. Communists Communists Everywhere!: Forgetting the Past and Living with History in Ecuador
Steve Striffler
9. "We Were the Strongest Ones Here": Transformed Livelihoods in Contemporary Spain
Claudia Vicencio
10. The Italian Post-Communist Left and Unemployment: Finding a New Position on Labor
Michael Blim
11. The Language of Contention in Liberal Ecuador
A. Kim Clark
Part 3: Hegemonies and Histories
12. The Decline of Patriarchy? The Political Economy of Patriarchy: Maquiladoras in Yucatan, Mexico
Marie France Labrecque
13. Remembering "The Ancient Ones": Memory, Hegemony, and the Shadows of State Terror in the Argentinean Chaco
Gaston Gordillo
14. Class, Discipline, and the Politics of Opposition in Ontario
Belinda Leach
15. Militant Particularism and Cultural Struggles as Cape Breton Burns Again
Pauline Gardiner Barber
16. Acquiescence and Quiescence: Gender and Politics in Rural Languedoc
Winnie Lem
17. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes: Identity, Livelihood, and the Politics of Survival in the Bigoudennie, France
Charles R. Menzies
18. Out of Site: The Horizons of Collective Identity
Gavin Smith
References
Contributors
Index