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Confronting the Present - Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology (Hardcover, First)
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Confronting the Present - Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology (Hardcover, First)
Series: Global Issues
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Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past
this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics
always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in
some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old
forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new
processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political
collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a
politically relevant anthropology? This book examines these
concerns in light of the author's shift from the study of rather
distant people to people and places closer to home - a trend to be
found within the discipline as a whole. How should anthropology
respond to this change, as it increasingly finds itself in stamping
grounds where other disciplines are already well-entrenched? How
will work being done in anthropology intersect with that in other
disciplines? Will anthropologists have anything to offer debates
that have been ongoing in these other disciplines, such as those
relating to social citizenship and collective identity, regionalism
and the constitution of space and place, hegemony and resistance,
political organization and cultural expression? Conversely, what
can anthropologists learn from the way other disciplines formulate
these issues and problems?Written to provoke discussion, this
timely book aims to initiate a dialogue not only with
anthropologists, but also with those in related disciplines who
share a concern with people, politics and modernity. As well as
anthropologists, the issues it tackles will be of interest to
geographers, economists, political scientists, social historians
and sociologists.
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