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Locating Capitalism in Time and Space

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Description for Locating Capitalism in Time and Space Paperback. This volume raises questions about two inter-related aspects of historical process and academic production. It aims to contribute to ongoing debates about the degree to which the developments of the latter decades of the 20th century represent the advent of a new historical era. Editor(s): Nugent, David. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW3; JHM; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.

The last several decades have witnessed major restructurings—economic, political, and cultural—in the international arena. The depth and scope of these changes have prompted anthropologists to rethink many of their most basic assumptions, to problematize issues that have long gone unexamined, and to grapple with new and unique problems. Doing so has left the discipline profoundly unsettled. Existing standards of scholarship and research methodologies have come under attack, key conceptual categories have been called into question, and truths once considered secure have been subjected to severe scrutiny and even ridicule.

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Locating Capitalism in Time and Space also raises questions about the degree to which the scholarship of recent decades represents a qualitative break with that of the past. At issue here is whether one understands the history of academic production as a linear process of intellectual growth punctuated by major breakthroughs in understanding, or as a political process structured by the same kinds of inequalities and struggles that characterize the social worlds that are the object of anthropological analysis.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804742382
SKU
V9780804742382
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99-15

About David . Ed(S): Nugent
David Nugent is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. He is the author of Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Sierra, 1885-1935 (Stanford, 1997)

Reviews for Locating Capitalism in Time and Space
“In assembling this book, which is a substantial contribution to anthropology, the editor has brought together a very impressive group of major scholars. His Introduction develops a new and important way of conceptualizing the history of anthropological theory.”—Gerald Sider, Graduate Center, CUNY “This book is important reading to anyone concerned with topics of state, nationality and capitalism, and for those ... Read more

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