Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 528 pages
- Published by: Wiley-Blackwell January 9, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1405161906
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1405161909
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 6.7 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 2 pounds
Product Review
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
“A awesome collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life.”
Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley “What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference.”
Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago"The
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual human being on our planet, and an inspired exploration of “things to come”. This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media – even by our elected “representatives” This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice.”
Reference ReviewsA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
"A awesome collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life." Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
"What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference." Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago
"The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual human being on our planet, and an inspired exploration of "things to come". This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media - even by our elected "representatives" This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice." Reference Reviews
Product Review
A
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
“A awesome collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life.”
Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley “What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference.”
Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago"The
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual human being on our planet, and an inspired exploration of “things to come”. This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media – even by our elected “representatives” This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice.”
Reference Reviews
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Companion to the Anthropology of Politics (Blackwell Companions to Anthropology) (Library Binding)
Political Anthropology can have you reading thousands of books with few concise answers, but leave it to editors David Nugent and Joan Vincent to give you a lead-in to the ever-complicating world of politics; finally, conceptualizing politics does not have to be complicated, and this text will lead you to future research endeavors. The book is a bit expensive, but nevertheless, still worthwhile.
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