A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics

by Nugent, David; Vincent, Joan

• ISBN13: 9781405161909
• ISBN10: 1405161906
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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

Author Biography

David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology, Emory University. He is President-Elect, American Ethnological Society and North American Editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. He is the author of Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes (1997), and the editor of Locating Capitalism in Time and Space (2002).

Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of numerous books and encyclopedia articles on political anthropology. Her works include Anthropology and Politics (1990, reissued 1995) and The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (Blackwell, 2002).

Table of Contents

Synopsis of Contents	p. viii
Preface	p. xv
Notes on Contributors	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Affective States	p. 4
After Socialism	p. 21
AIDS	p. 37
Citizenship	p. 55
Cosmopolitanism	p. 69
Development	p. 86
Displacement	p. 107
Feminism	p. 121
Gender, Race, and Class	p. 135
Genetic Citizenship	p. 152
The Global City	p. 168
Globalization	p. 179
Governing States	p. 198
Hegemony	p. 216
Human Rights	p. 231
Identity	p. 248
Imagining Nations	p. 267
Infrapolitics	p. 282
"Mafias"	p. 303
Militarization	p. 318
Neoliberalism	p. 332
Popular Justice	p. 349
Postcolonialism	p. 367
Power Topographies	p. 383
Race Technologies	p. 400
Sovereignty	p. 418
Transnational Civil Society	p. 437
Transnationality	p. 448
Index	p. 468
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