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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the promise of political anthropology
Harald Wydra and Bjorn Thomassen
PART I OLD AND NEW PARADIGMS
1. Recovering the classical foundations of political anthropology
Arpad Szakolczai
2. On the mimetic turn in the social sciences
Roberto Farneti
3. Charisma/trickster: on the twofold nature of power
Agnes Horvath
4. Contemporary political stakes: after-lives of the modern
Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis
5. Political anthropology: biology, culture, and ethics
Gabriele De Anna and Christian Illies
6. Cultural intimacy and the politics of civility
Michael Herzfeld
PART II ANTHRO-POLITICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
7. Politics and the permanence of the sacred
Paul Dumouchel
8. Anthropology and the enigma of the state
Finn Stepputat and Monique Nuijten
9. Liminality and the politics of the transitional
Maria Malksoo
10. The anthropology of political revolutions
Bjorn Thomassen
11. Comparative political analysis and the interpretation of meaning
Jean-Pascal Daloz
12. Anthropology and political ideology
Sune Haugbolle
13. Post-neoliberalism?
Keir Martin
14. The political and the religious: on the making of virtuous politics
Simon Coleman
PART III ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE POLITICAL
15. The politics of development: anthropological perspectives
Jeremy Gould and Eija Ranta
16. Ethnographies of power
Jan Kubik
17. Postdemocracy and a politics of prefiguration
Nicholas J. Long
18. Feminist theory and reproduction
Megan Moodie
19. New war zones or evolving modes of insurgency warfare?
Morten Boas
20. The political anthropology of borders and territory: European perspectives
Hastings Donnan, Bjorn Thomassen and Harald Wydra
21. The politics of movement and migration
Parvathi Raman
PART IV PROCESSES
22. Security, securitization, desecuritization: how security produces insecurity
John Gledhill
23. Nature, politics, and climate change
Mette Fog Olwig
24. The fall and rise of class
Andrew Sanchez
25. The politics of ethno-religious violence
Madurika Rasaratnam
26. The anthropology of crime
Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal
27. Globalization
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Index
"This ground-breaking collection introduces readers to the fascinating research field of political anthropology. The chapters engage in major theoretical and methodological debates to provide interpretive frames, analytical tools and ethnographic illustrations for culturally based interpretations of political phenomena, revealing the intersection between anthropology, culture, politics and international relations"-- Book cover.
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