ISBN:
978-1-78347-900-9
,
978-1-78347-901-6/(eBook)
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 497 Seiten
Series Statement:
Elgar Handbooks in Political Science
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Anthropologie, politische Handbuch
;
Sozialwissenschaft
;
Trickster-Wesen
;
Staat
;
Revolution
;
Politik
;
Ideologie
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Religion und Politik
;
Entwicklung, politische
;
Macht
;
Feminismus
;
Grenze
;
Territorialität
;
Migration
;
Sicherheit
;
Gewalt
;
Kriminalität
;
Globalisierung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This ground-breaking collection introduces readers to the fascinating research field of political anthropology. The chapters engage in major theoretical and methodological debates to provide interpretive frames, analytical tools and ethnographic illustrations for culturally based interpretations of political phenomena, revealing the intersection between anthropology, culture, politics and international relations. Theoretical tools such as liminality, sacrifice, mimesis, ethics, trickster and interpretation of meaning provide understanding of the key challenges in a globalised world. These include war zones, revolutions, migration, securitization, territorial borders, climate change and ethno-religious violence. The contributing authors focus on the ethnographies of power, political culture and forms of cultural intimacy in informal networks. Using self-critical and reflexive approaches, they show that disciplinary boundaries have been reshaped by changing meanings of power, including reconfigurations of state and sovereignty. With reflections on the potential and limits of political anthropology, this Handbook explores the art of understanding human interaction within political frameworks in a globalising world. Offering a unique reference resource in the area with exceptional cross-disciplinary research, this Handbook will suit political, social and cultural anthropologists as well as scholars in comparative political analysis and social theory.
Description / Table of Contents:
Recovering the classical foundations of political anthropology / Arpad Szakolczai -- On the mimetic turn in the social sciences / roberto Farneti -- Charisma/trickster: on the twofold nature of power / Agnes Horvath -- Contemporary political stakes: after-lives of the modern / Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis -- Political anthropology: biology, culture, and ethics / Gabriele De Anna and Christian Illies -- Cultural intimacy and the politics of civility / Michael Herzfeld -- Politics and the permanence of the sacred / Paul Dumouchel -- Anthropology and the enigma of the state / Finn Stepputat and Monique Nuijten -- Liminality and the politics of the transitional / Maria Mälksoo -- The anthropology of political revolutions / Bjørn Thomassen -- Comparative political analysis and the interpretation of meaning / Jean-Pascal Daloz -- Anthropology and political ideology / Sune Haugbolle -- Post-neoliberalism? / Keir Martin -- The political and the religious: on the making of virtuous politics / Simon Coleman -- The politics of development: anthropological perspectives / Jeremy Gould and Eija Ranta -- Ethnographies of power / Jan Kubik -- Postdemocracy and a politics of prefiguration / Nicholas J. Long -- Feminist theory and reproduction / Megan Moodie -- New war zones or evolving modes of insurgency warfare? / Morten Bøås -- The political anthropology of borders and territory: European perspectives / Hastings Donnan, Bjørn Thomassen and Harald Wydra -- The politics of movement and migration / Parvathi Raman -- Security, securitization, desecuritization: how security produces insecurity / John Gledhill -- Nature, politics, and climate change / Mette Fog Olwig -- The fall and rise of class / Andrew Sanchez -- The politics of ethno-religious violence / Madurika Rasaratnam -- The anthropology of crime / Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal -- Globalization / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
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