The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

In The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique , editor Joan Vincent offers her readers a selection of classic and contemporary articles on the anthropology of politics. Her introduction, headnotes, and suggested readings make this an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and instructors alike. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLITICS 1 Contents 4 Joan Vincent - Introduction 11 E. E. Evans-Pritchard - Nuer Politics: Structure and System (orig. 1940) 24 Sharon Elaine Hutchinson - Nuer Ethnicity Militarized (orig. 1999) 29 Max Gluckman - ''The Bridge'': Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand (orig. 1940) 43 Ronald Frankenberg - ''The Bridge'' Revisited (orig. 1982) 49 Kathleen Gough - New Proposals for Anthropologists (orig. 1968) 55 Talal Asad - From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony (orig. 1991) 65 Eric R. Wolf - Facing Power - Old Insights, New Questions (orig. 1990) 75 June Nash - Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System (orig. 1981) 87 Katherine Verdery - Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the ''Transition'' (orig. 1991) 108 John Gledhill - Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy (orig. 2000) 129 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality (orig. 1992) 143 In The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique, editor Joan Vincent offers a selection of classic and contemporary articles on the anthropology of politics. [from publisher's advertisement] "The Enlightenment" is best thought of as a social movement that emerged among eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century intellectuals in western Europe.