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This volume explores the myriad manifestations, tropes and
experiences of power' in contemporary Southeast Asia. The
contributors address the surprising absence of direct scholarly
engagement with the theme of power' in Southeast Asia given
innumerable social, political and economic transformations of the
region over the last half-century. The rise of postcolonial
nation-states, industrialization, rapid economic growth, widespread
repression and genocide, social upheaval and democratization are
just some of the currents that have wrought far reaching changes
across Southeast Asia. Power lies at the core of these important
developments, whether in the form of brute military force or as a
more capillary disciplinary' influence on religious and political
subjectivities. New religious, economic and political movements --
all drawing deeply on local traditions while proposing new forms of
personhood, civil and political society -- cut across national,
cultural, ideological and sectarian boundaries. Yet for all that
power can be detected in the region, there seems to be little
specifically Southeast Asian about contemporary scholarly analyses.
Integrating theoretical debates with empirical evidence drawn from
the contributing authors' own research, this volume will be of
particular interest to scholars and students of anthropology and
Asian Studies.
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and
dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book
explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations,
and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and
political forms. The book works from the ground up, portraying
Southeast Asians' own perspectives, conceptualizations and
experiences of power through empirically rich case studies.
Exploring concepts of power in diverse settings, from the
stratagems of Indonesian politicians and the aspirations of
marginal Lao bureaucrats, to mass 'Prayer Power' rallies in the
Philippines, self-cultivation practices of Thai Buddhists and
relations with the dead in Singapore, the book lays out a new
framework for the analysis of power in Southeast Asia in which
orientations towards or away from certain models, practices and
configurations of power take centre stage in analysis. In doing so
the book demonstrates how power cannot be pinned down to a single
definition, but is woven into Southeast Asian lives in complex,
subtle, and often surprising ways. Integrating theoretical debates
with empirical evidence drawn from the contributing authors' own
research, this book is of particular interest to scholars and
students of Anthropology and Asian Studies.
Who do "we" anthropologists think "we" are? And how do forms and
notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think,
write, and do anthropology? This volume explores how the
anthropological "we" has been construed, transformed, and deployed
across history and the global anthropological landscape. Drawing
together both reflections and ethnographic case studies, it
interrogates the critical-yet poorly studied-roles played by myriad
anthropological "we" ss in generating and influencing
anthropological theory, method, and analysis. In the process, new
spaces are opened for reimagining who "we" are - and what "we," and
indeed anthropology, could become.
One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two
decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and
ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological
understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has
become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship.
This volume brings together leading anthropologists,
archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an
interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely
re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of
Gell's work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the
social sciences and humanities. Extending his theory into new
territory - from music to literary technology and ontology to
technological change - the contributors do not simply take stock,
but also provoke, critically reassessing this important work while
using it to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries.
One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two
decades, Alfred Gell's Art and Agency is a provocative and
ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological
understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social. It has
become a touchstone in contemporary artifact-based scholarship.
This volume brings together leading anthropologists,
archaeologists, art historians and other scholars into an
interdisciplinary dialogue with Art and Agency, generating a timely
re-engagement with the themes, issues and arguments at the heart of
Gell's work, which remains salient, and controversial, in the
social sciences and humanities. Extending his theory into new
territory - from music to literary technology and ontology to
technological change - the contributors do not simply take stock,
but also provoke, critically reassessing this important work while
using it to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries.
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