The Anthropology of PoliticsA Reader in Ethnography, Theory,

and Critique

Edited by

Joan Vincent

BLACKWELLPublish

Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1Joan Vincent

Parti Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges 15

Introduction 17Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767) 21Adam Smith Free-Market Policies (1776) 21Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with

Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a PragmaticPoint of View (1797) 22

Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India onEuropean Thought (1887) 23

Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877) 24Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) 24Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847) 24James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) 25

Part II Classics and Classics Revisited 27

Introduction 29

1 Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) 34E. E. Evans-Pritchard

1 Nuer Ethnicity Militarized 39Sharon Elaine Hutchinson

3 "The Bridge": Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand 53Max Gluckman

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4 "The Bridge" Revisited 59Ronald Frankenberg

5 Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsiderationof Swat Political Organization 65Talal Asad

6 The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala 82E. R. Leach

7 Stratagems and Spoils 90F. G. Bailey

8 Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas 96Victor W. Turner

9 Political Anthropology 102Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden

10 New Proposals for Anthropologists 110Kathleen Gough

11 National Liberation 120Eric R. Wolf

Part III Imperial Times, Colonial Places 127

Introduction 129

12 From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropologyof Western Hegemony 133Talal Asad

13 East of Said 143Richard G. Fox

14 Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra 153Ann Stoler

15 Culture of Terror - Space of Death 172Michael Taussig

16 Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the VenezuelanProletariat 187William Roseberry

17 Of Revelation and Revolution 203Jean and John Comaroff

18 Between Speech and Silence 213Susan Gal

19 Facing Power - Old Insights, New Questions 222Eric R. Wolf

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20 Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System 234June Nash

Part IV Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium 255

Introduction 257

21 The New World Disorder 261Benedict Anderson

22 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 271Arjun Appadurai

23 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification asExpressions of Declining Global Hegemony 285Jonathan Friedman

24 Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations 301S. P. Reyna

25 Modernity at the Edge of Empire 313David Nugent

26 Politics on the Periphery 325Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

27 Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans 338Aihwa Ong

28 Long-distance Nationalism Defined 356Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron

29 Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the "Transition" 366Katherine Verdery

30 Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind 387Caroline Humphrey

31 The Anti-politics Machine 399James Ferguson

32 Peasants against Globalization 409Marc Edelman

33 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 424Paul Farmer

34 Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibilityand the Academy 438John Gledhill

35 Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality 452Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Index 461