In recent years power has overtaken culture as the master
concept in anthropology. This study identifies globalization as the
force behind the change, and measures the explanatory potential of
power and culture in the ethnographic setting, including discussion
of the terrorist attack on America of September 11, 2001.
In recent years the concept of power has soared to the top of
the anthropological agenda, while the concept of culture has been
found inadequate in understanding the contemporary world. The
purposes of this study are to explain why power has become a
central interest in the discipline, to evaluate the explanatory
potential of power, to demonstrate how to analyze power in the
ethnographic context, and to consider whether the culture concept
can be salvaged. In chapter one the process by which the profile of
power became elevated as a result of globalization is analyzed;
included here is the critique of culture. In chapter two, a broad
overview of the conception of power from early political
anthropology to key works in philosophy, political science, and
political sociology is attempted. Some anthropologists have
recently tried to rescue the culture concept; this is the focus of
chapter three.
Although the argument in this study is that power is
fundamentally important, it would be a mistake to think that power
is any less ambiguous than culture or any other concept; thus, in
chapter four it is shown that for each of 20 major assumptions
about power, there is a plausible counter-assumption. Chapter five
ties the study together by exploring the debates about power in the
context of ethnography. The study ends with a postscript on the
terrorist attacks on America of September 11, 2001-a poignant
reminder that culture and power sometimes intersect to produce
human tragedy on a grand scale.
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