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Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology
Akhil Gupta
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Description for Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology
Paperback. Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localised society or culture as its object of study. This title features essays that demonstrate how over the years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. Editor(s): Gupta, Akhil; Ferguson, James. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 234 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power, and resistance.
This collection of both new and well-known essays begins by critically exploring the concepts of locality and community; ... Read more
Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power, and resistance.
This collection of both new and well-known essays begins by critically exploring the concepts of locality and community; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822319405
SKU
V9780822319405
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About Akhil Gupta
Akhil Gupta is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
Reviews for Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology
“Culture, Power, Place is exciting, timely, and consequential. This fine book promises to be a contribution of real intellectual significance—and should attract a very large audience both within anthropology and in cultural studies and related fields. This is mature, provocative, well-grounded and imaginative scholarship of the highest quality.”—Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz “This collection presses forward the agenda ... Read more