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Crisis of the State : War and Social Upheaval (2009)

Alnaes, Kirsten [Mitwirkender] ; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge [Mitwirkender] ; Boserup, Rasmus Alenius [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781845459093

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (338 p.)

DDC: 303.6/2

Abstract: Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social - whether in Africa, the Middle East, South America or the United States. Through the examination of these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.

DOI: 10.1515/9781845459093

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459093

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The Manchester School : Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (2006)

Evens, T. M. S. (Terry) [Herausgeber] ; Frankenberg, Ronald [Mitwirkender] ; Glaeser, Andreas [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857458582

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (348 p.)

DDC: 305.8001

Abstract: Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology. Anticipating practice theory, and implicitly politically charged, it was developed as a tool to bring into account what orthodox structural functionalism was ill-equipped to address, namely, problems such as change, conflict, deviance, and individual choice. Edited by two students of Gluckman, the volume comprises reprinted pieces by Gluckman and his colleague Clyde Mitchell, a Coda by Mitchell's student, Bruce Kapferer, contributions by Gluckman's students and/or friends and colleagues, including Ronnie Frankenberg, Kapferer, Evens, Handelman, and Sally Falk Moore, as well as a number of contributions from other practitioners of the extended case. Apart from the reprinted pieces by Gluckman and Mitchell, all the contributions have been written for this volume. These essays, historical, theoretical, and ethnographical, serve to highlight and critically examine the fundamental features of the extended-case method, in order to advance its substantial, continuing merits.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857458582

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857458582

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Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond : Perspectives from Social Anthropology (2006)

Banerjee, Mukulika [Mitwirkender] ; Banks, Marcus [Mitwirkender] ; Fillitz, Thomas [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9781782386117

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)

DDC: 306.2094

Abstract: By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity. Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe, this collection offers a range of European case studies with selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive contributions anthropology might make to its study.

DOI: 10.1515/9781782386117

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386117

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Ritual in Its Own Right : Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation (2005)

Droogers, André [Mitwirkender] ; Greenfield, Sidney M. [Mitwirkender] ; Handelman, Don [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857458889

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 p.)

DDC: 306.4

Abstract: Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857458889

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857458889

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Oligarchs and Oligopolies : New Formations of Global Power (2005)

Ifeka, Caroline [Mitwirkender] ; Kapferer, Bruce [Mitwirkender] ; Kapferer, Roland [Mitwirkender] ; [et al.]

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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ISBN: 9780857458599

Language: English

Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (122 p.)

Series Statement: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 7

DDC: 303.482

Abstract: As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasingly taking on a corporate structure, as well as a more overt oligarchic character. Evidence of this can be seen in the growing domination of political organizations and institutions by close-knit social groups (familial dynasties, closed associations, or personal networks) that seek exclusive control over economic resources. These new forms of state power that are emerging are not reducible to the past, and the nation-state, as the essays in this volume show, is giving way to a political-economic formation that has multiple state-like effects and is able to act in ways systemic with deterritorializing global processes. Exploring these processes in different concrete locations from North America to Russia, West Africa, and Australia, the authors show that current configurations of global, imperial, and state power cannot be understood without examining their relation to formations of oligarchic control. They bring us closer to an understanding of the ways in which the nation-state is being transformed by globalization.

DOI: 10.1515/9780857458599

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857458599

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