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Author Smith, Gavin.

Title Confronting the present : towards a politically engaged anthropology / Gavin Smith
Published Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999

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Description xvi, 296 pages ; 23 cm
Series Global issues
Global issues (Oxford, England)
Contents Pt. I. Selective Traditions. Ch. 1. Politically engaged social enquiry and images of society -- Pt. II. Cultural Differentiations. Ch. 2. The production of culture in local rebellion. Ch. 3. Secret agents, hidden meanings: domination and resistance re-examined -- Pt. III. Modernity and New Socio-Economic Forms. Ch. 4. Knowing their place: regional economies and the social construction of place in Western Europe. Ch. 5. Towards an ethnographic method for the study of 'informalized' regional economies in Western Europe -- Pt. IV. Disciplined Practices. Ch. 6. Overlapping collectivities: Local concern, state welfare and social membership. Ch. 7. The dialectics of history and will: The Janus face of hegemonic processes
Main Series Global issues
Bibliography Includes bibliography (pages 271-290) and index
Subject Anthropologists' writings, English.
Anthropology -- Methodology.
Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
Political anthropology.
Political science -- Philosophy.
LC no. 99224367
ISBN 1859732003 (Cloth)
1859732054 (Paper)