Lem / Leach Culture, Economy, Power

Anthropology as Critique, Anthropology as Praxis
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8900-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 319 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues

Confronts major questions facing anthropology, Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminism, and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lem, Winnie

Leach, Belinda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
Winnie Lem and Belinda Leach
Part 1: Nations and Knowledge
2. Bicentrism, Culture, and the Political Economy of Sociocultural Anthropology in English Canada
Thomas Dunk
3. The Political Economy of Political Economy in Spanish Anthropology
Susana Narotzky
4. Anthropological Debates and the Crisis of Mexican Nationalism
Guillermo de la Peña
5. Political Economy in the United States
William Roseberry
6. "A Small Discipline": The Embattled Place of Anthropology in a Massified British Higher Education Sector
John Gledhill
Part 2: States and Subjects
7. Sentiment and Structure: Nation and State
Dipankar Gupta
8. Communists Communists Everywhere!: Forgetting the Past and Living with History in Ecuador
Steve Striffler
9. "We Were the Strongest Ones Here": Transformed Livelihoods in Contemporary Spain
Claudia Vicencio
10. The Italian Post-Communist Left and Unemployment: Finding a New Position on Labor
Michael Blim
11. The Language of Contention in Liberal Ecuador
A. Kim Clark
Part 3: Hegemonies and Histories
12. The Decline of Patriarchy? The Political Economy of Patriarchy: Maquiladoras in Yucatan, Mexico
Marie France Labrecque
13. Remembering "The Ancient Ones": Memory, Hegemony, and the Shadows of State Terror in the Argentinean Chaco
Gastón Gordillo
14. Class, Discipline, and the Politics of Opposition in Ontario
Belinda Leach
15. Militant Particularism and Cultural Struggles as Cape Breton Burns Again
Pauline Gardiner Barber
16. Acquiescence and Quiescence: Gender and Politics in Rural Languedoc
Winnie Lem
17. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes: Identity, Livelihood, and the Politics of Survival in the Bigoudennie, France
Charles R. Menzies
18. Out of Site: The Horizons of Collective Identity
Gavin Smith
References Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Winnie Lem is Associate Professor of Comparative Development Studies at Trent University and the author of Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity, and Praxis in Rural Languedoc, also published by SUNY Press. Belinda Leach is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Guelph.