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Title Culture, economy, power : anthropology as critique, anthropology as praxis / edited by Winnie Lem and Belinda Leach
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description viii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Series SUNY series in anthropological studies of contemporary issues
SUNY series in anthropological studies of contemporary issues.
Contents Bicentrism, culture, and the political economy of sociocultural anthropology in English Canada / Thomas Dunk -- The political economy of political economy in Spanish anthropology / Susana Narotzky -- Anthropological debates and the crisis of Mexican nationalism / Guillermo de la Peña -- Political economy in the United States / William Roseberry -- "A small discipline": the embattled place of anthropology in a massified British higher education sector / John Gledhill -- Sentiment and structure: nation and state / Dipankar Gupta -- Communists communists everywhere!: forgetting the past and living with history in Ecuador / Steve Striffler -- "We were the strongest ones here": transformed livelihoods in contemporary Spain / Claudia Vicencio -- The Italian post-communist left and unemployment: finding a new position on labor / Michael Blim -- The language of contention in liberal Ecuador / A. Kim Clark -- The decline of patriarchy? The political economy of patriarchy: maquiladoras in Yucatan, Mexico / Marie France Labrecque -- Remembering "the ancient ones": memory, hegemony, and the shadows of state terror in the Argentinean Chaco / Gastón Gordillo -- Class, discipline, and the politics of opposition in Ontario / Belinda Leach -- Militant particularism and cultural struggles as Cape Breton burns again / Pauline Gardiner Barber -- Acquiescence and quiescence: gender and politics in rural Languedoc / Winnie Lem -- Red flags and lace coiffes: identity, livelihood, and the politics of survival in the Bigoudennie, France / Charles R. Menzies -- Out of site: the horizons of collective identity / Gavin Smith
Summary "Grounded in a conviction that anthropological knowledge implies critique and that engaging in anthropology is also ultimately an act of praxis, various contributors explore the ways in which the precepts of Marxism continue to illuminate and enhance our understanding of culture, economy, and politics. They focus on the question of epistemology to examine the process of anthropological intellectual production in different national settings and analyze the ways in which hierarchies of power and forms of state domination figure in the formation of subjectivities in different ethnographic contexts. The authors also reflect upon how class, gender, ethnicity, racialized forms of ethnicity, as well as regional and national identities, are configured through the relationships involved in making a living under late capitalism."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-288) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Marxist anthropology.
Political anthropology.
Author Lem, Winnie.
Leach, Belinda, 1954-
LC no. 2001032250
ISBN 9780791452899
0791452891 alkaline paper
0791452905 alkaline paper