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Aulino, Goheen, Tamb - Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations - 9780823241903 - V9780823241903
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Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations

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Description for Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations paperback. Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies--stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas collected to represent a form of historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science that seeks to understand social phenomena by dialogically engaging global and local perspectives. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.

In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science.
The book’s chapters, drawing on research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are also in conversation with the extensive work of editor and contributor Stanley J. Tambiah: They all investigate some aspect of what Tambiah has called “multiple orientations to the world.” The implicit focus throughout is on human cultural differences and the historically constituted nature of the political potentialities (both positive and negative) that stem from these. As a whole, then, the volume promotes an approach to scholarship that actively avoids privileging any one conceptual framework or cultural form at the expense of recognizing another—a style of inquiry that the editors call “radical egalitarianism.”
Together, these scholars encourage a comparative examination of contemporary societies, provide insights into the historical development of social scientific and sociopolitical categories, and raise vital questions about the possibilities for achieving equality and justice in the presence of competing realities in the global world today. Michael M.J. Fischer’s Afterword provides a brilliant exegesis of Tambiah’s multifaceted oeuvre, outlining the primary themes that inform his scholarship and, by extension, all the chapters in this book.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823241903
SKU
V9780823241903
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About Aulino, Goheen, Tamb
Michael M.J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at MIT. Among his most recent books is Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry.

Reviews for Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations
"Essays that reflect Stanley Tambiah's approach to historically grounded anthropology." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Strives for thick description, close reading, and comparative agility."
-Jim Boon Princeton University "The scholarship embodied in the collection is consistently high quality and the contributions combine theoretical rigor with rich empirical detail. The volume both reflects and extends Stanley J. Tambiah's contributions to anthropology."
-Elizabeth Traube Wesleyan University

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