After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the
Aftermath offers a thought-provoking examination of the state of
contemporary anthropology, identifying key issues that have
confronted the discipline in recent years and linking them to
neoliberalism, and suggesting how we might do things differently in
the future. The first part of the volume considers how anthropology
has come to resemble, as a result of the rise of postmodern and
poststructural approaches in the field, key elements of
neoliberalism and neoclassical economics by rejecting the idea of
system in favour of individuals. It also investigates the effect of
the economic crisis on funding and support for higher education and
addresses the sense that anthropology has 'lost its way', with
uncertainty over the purpose and future of the discipline. The
second part of the book explores how the discipline can overcome
its difficulties and place itself on a firmer foundation,
suggesting ways that we can productively combine the debates of the
late twentieth century with a renewed sense that people live their
lives not as individuals, but as enmeshed in webs of relationship
and obligation.
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