Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized
society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture,
Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological
convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and
cultural difference have undergone a series of important
challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the
transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial
world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in
anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power,
and resistance. This collection of both new and well-known essays
begins by critically exploring the concepts of locality and
community; first, as they have had an impact on contemporary global
understandings of displacement and mobility, and, second, as they
have had a part in defining identity and subjectivity itself. With
sites of discussion ranging from a democratic Spain to a Puerto
Rican barrio in North Philadelphia, from Burundian Hutu refugees in
Tanzania to Asian landscapes in rural California, from the silk
factories of Hangzhou to the long-sought-after home of the
Palestinians, these essays examine the interplay between changing
schemes of categorization and the discourses of difference on which
these concepts are based. The effect of the placeless mass media on
our understanding of place-and the forces that make certain
identities viable in the world and others not-are also discussed,
as are the intertwining of place-making, identity, and resistance
as they interact with the meaning and consumption of signs.
Finally, this volume offers a self-reflective look at the social
and political location of anthropologists in relation to the
questions of culture, power, and place-the effect of their
participation in what was once seen as their descriptions of these
constructions. Contesting the classical idea of culture as the
shared, the agreed upon, and the orderly, Culture, Power, Place is
an important intervention in the disciplines of anthropology and
cultural studies. Contributors. George E. Bisharat, John Borneman,
Rosemary J. Coombe, Mary M. Crain, James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta,
Kristin Koptiuch, Karen Leonard, Richard Maddox, Lisa H. Malkki,
John Durham Peters, Lisa Rofel
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