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The Social Anthropology of the Nation-State

Author : Lloyd Fallers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351474065
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Social Anthropology of the Nation-State written by Lloyd Fallers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary nation-state is popular in that it rests upon mutual identification between rulers and ruled. Such identification is based upon common primordial qualities that are felt to be ancient, inherent, given, however new they may in fact be: language, territory, culture, race. But the nation-state has also produced far more rigorous authoritarianisms and frequently less tolerance than old empires. Anthropology, the -study of man, - for all the immodesty of its name, has concerned itself almost exclusively with people in small groups: bands, tribal segments, village communities, and, recently, urban neighborhoods, schools, and work places. Social anthropology has been the science of the socio-cultural microcosm and has developed a method and style of inquiry appropriate to this task. This volume uniquely applies the techniques of social anthropology to the study of the nation-state. This discussion of states and their microcosms does not simply celebrate social anthropological research and the understanding it yields, but also illustrates its contribution, in combination with other modes of investigation, to the understanding of contemporary international issues. In particular, Fallers says it is necessary to place the microcosms historically, for those who inhabit them act within history as experienced, both directly by themselves and, at further remove, by their predecessors and contemporaries. This classic volume offers a different perspective for understanding international issues.

The social anthropology of the nation-state

Author : Lloyd Ashton Fallers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The social anthropology of the nation-state written by Lloyd Ashton Fallers and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Intimacy

Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136792414
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Intimacy written by Michael Herzfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new updated edition, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them.

Empires, Nations, and Natives

Author : Benoît de L'Estoile
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387107
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Empires, Nations, and Natives written by Benoît de L'Estoile and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires, Nations, and Natives is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the interplay between the practice of anthropology and the politics of empires and nation-states in the colonial and postcolonial worlds. It brings together essays that demonstrate how the production of social-science knowledge about the “other” has been inextricably linked to the crafting of government policies. Subverting established boundaries between national and imperial anthropologies, the contributors explore the role of anthropology in the shifting categorizations of race in southern Africa, the identification of Indians in Brazil, the implementation of development plans in Africa and Latin America, the construction of Mexican and Portuguese nationalism, the genesis of “national character” studies in the United States during World War II, the modernizing efforts of the French colonial administration in Africa, and postcolonial architecture. The contributors—social and cultural anthropologists from the Americas and Europe—report on both historical and contemporary processes. Moving beyond controversies that cast the relationship between scholarship and politics in binary terms of complicity or autonomy, they bring into focus a dynamic process in which states, anthropological knowledge, and population groups themselves are mutually constructed. Such a reflexive endeavor is an essential contribution to a critical anthropological understanding of a changing world. Contributors: Alban Bensa, Marcio Goldman, Adam Kuper, Benoît de L’Estoile, Claudio Lomnitz, David Mills, Federico Neiburg, João Pacheco de Oliveira, Jorge Pantaleón, Omar Ribeiro Thomaz, Lygia Sigaud, Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Florence Weber

Syllabus of the Social Anthropology of Eastern Africa

Author : Lloyd A. Fallers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syllabus of the Social Anthropology of Eastern Africa written by Lloyd A. Fallers and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hybrids of Modernity

Author : Penelope Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134791739
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Hybrids of Modernity written by Penelope Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory, the targets of critics who claim that despite their continuing visibility these are all institutions with questionable viability in the late 20th century. Through analysis of the Universal Exhibition held in seville in 1992, the themes of culture, nationality and technology are explored. Particular attention is paid to how "culture" is produced and put to work by the national and corporate participants, and to the relationship between the emergence of culture as commodity and the way in which the concept is employed in contemporary cultural theory.

Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism

Author : Paul James
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 1446230546
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism written by Paul James and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Paul James has written a magnificent account of the world′s current condition, one that highlights the complexities and contradictions with which people, communities, and nations must contend and that does so in a compelling and creative style. Stressing the interaction between global and local forces, his writing style is lively and compelling as well as peppered with a wide range of citations, from Woman′s Day to the Cambodian Daily (on the same page!)′ - James N Rosenau, University Professor of International Affairs, The George Washington University Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism establishes a new basis for understanding the changing nature of polity and community and offers unprecedented attention to these dominant trends. Paul James charts the contradictions and tensions we all encounter in an era of increasing globalization, from genocide and terrorism to television and finance capital. Globalism is treated as an uneven and layered process of spatial expansion, not simply one of disorder, fragmentation or rupture. Nor is it simply a force of homogenization. Nationalism is taken seriously as a continuing and important formation of contemporary identity and politics. James rewrites the modernism theories of the nation-state without devolving into the postmodernist assertion that all is invention or surface gloss. Tribalism is given the attention it has long warranted and is analyzed as a continuing and changing formation of social life, from the villages of Rwanda to the cities of the West. Theoretically adept and powerfully argued, this is the first comprehensive analysis that brings these crucial themes of contemporary life together.

A Social History of Anthropology in the United States

Author : Thomas C. Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000183564
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Anthropology in the United States written by Thomas C. Patterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part due to the recent Yanomami controversy, which has rocked anthropology to its very core, there is renewed interest in the discipline's history and intellectual roots, especially amongst anthropologists themselves. The cutting edge of anthropological research today is a product of earlier questions and answers, previous ambitions, preoccupations and adventures, stretching back one hundred years or more. This book is the first comprehensive history of American anthropology. Crucially, Patterson relates the development of anthropology in the United States to wider historical currents in society. American anthropologists over the years have worked through shifting social and economic conditions, changes in institutional organization, developing class structures, world politics, and conflicts both at home and abroad. How has anthropology been linked to colonial, commercial and territorial expansion in the States? How have the changing forms of race, power, ethnic identity and politics shaped the questions anthropologists ask, both past and present? Anthropology as a discipline has always developed in a close relationship with other social sciences, but this relationship has rarely been scrutinized. This book details and explains the complex interplay of forces and conditions that have made anthropology in America what it is today. Furthermore, it explores how anthropologists themselves have contributed and propagated powerful images and ideas about the different cultures and societies that make up our world. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the roots and reasons behind American anthropology at the turn of the twenty-first century. Intellectual historians, social scientists, and anyone intrigued by the growth and development of institutional politics and practices should read this book.

Belonging in the Two Berlins

Author : John Borneman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521427159
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Belonging in the Two Berlins written by John Borneman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Borneman shows how ideas of kin, state, and nation were constructed through processes of mirror imaging and misrecognition. Using linguistics and narrative analysis he compares the autobiographies of two generations of Berlin's residents with the official versions prescribed by the two German states.

Messy Europe

Author : Kristín Loftsdóttir
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785337971
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Messy Europe written by Kristín Loftsdóttir and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work “crisis talk” does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.

Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives

Author : Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives written by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethnicity and Nationalism, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relationships. Drawing on a wide range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and nationhood, as well as current issues of racism, globalization and multiculturalism. Influential theories are presented and critically compared in a lucid and comprehensive manner. A core text for all students of social anthropology and related subjects, Ethnicity and Nationalism has been a leading introduction to the field since its original publication in 1993. New topics in this edition include cultural property rights, the role of genetics in the public understanding of identification, commercialisation of identity, and the significance of the internet.

Nation Making

Author : Robert John Foster
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472084272
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Nation Making written by Robert John Foster and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the process of nation making in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu

Global Transformations

Author : M. Trouillot
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137041447
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Global Transformations written by M. Trouillot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of anthropology in the Twenty-first-century, by examining its past, its origins, and its conditions of possibility alongside the history of the North Atlantic world and the production of the West. In this significant book, Trouillot challenges contemporary anthropologists to question dominant narratives of globalization and to radically rethink the utility of the concept of culture, the emphasis upon fieldwork as the central methodology of the discipline, and the relationship between anthropologists and the people whom they study.

The Nation Form in the Global Age

Author : Irfan Ahmad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030855805
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Nation Form in the Global Age written by Irfan Ahmad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism vis-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective. The text will appeal to students and researchers interested in nationalism outside of the West, especially those working in anthropology, sociology and history.

The Unseen Presence

Author : Geoffrey Benjamin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Unseen Presence written by Geoffrey Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grasping the Changing World

Author : Václav Hubinger
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415102025
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Grasping the Changing World written by Václav Hubinger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resulting from the EASA conference in Prague, this book addresses the crises of identity, purpose and interest in the changing world and examines how social anthropology must update its methodology when applied to comparisons across space and time.As various societies increasingly merge into one global society and consequently have to address crises of identity, purpose and interest, so must social anthropology re-examine and update its methodology.Grasping the Changing World concerns itself with European anthropology from an Eastern perspective rather than focusing exclusively on Eastern European anthropology. It offers comparative material analysing social situations in Russia, Indonesia, Britain, Central Europe, Southern Africa and the Arctic as a means to determine the success or failure of the same concepts in the understanding of present Central Europe.

Postcolonial Developments

Author : Akhil Gupta
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322139
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Developments written by Akhil Gupta and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive study explores what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in rural north India from the early 1980s through the 1990s, POSTCOLONIAL DEVELOPMENTS challenges the dichotomy of "developed" and "underdevelopoed", and offers a new model for future ethnographic scholarship. 15 photos.