Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1 Joan Vincent
Part I Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges 15
Introduction 17 Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767) 21 Adam Smith Free-Market Policies (1776) 21 Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) 22 Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) 23 Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877) 24 Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) 24 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847) 24 James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) 25
Part II Classics and Classics Revisited 27
Introduction 29
1 Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) 34 E. E. Evans-Pritchard
2 Nuer Ethnicity Militarized 39 Sharon Elaine Hutchinson
3 &‘grave;The Bridge'': Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand 53 Max Gluckman
4 &‘grave;The Bridge'' Revisited 59 Ronald Frankenberg
5 Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization 65 Talal Asad
6 The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala 82 E. R. Leach
7 Stratagems and Spoils 90 F. G. Bailey
8 Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas 96 Victor W. Turner
9 Political Anthropology 102 Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden
10 New Proposals for Anthropologists 110 Kathleen Gough
11 National Liberation 120 Eric R. Wolf
Part III Imperial Times, Colonial Places 127 Introduction 129
12 From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony 133 Talal Asad
13 East of Said 143 Richard G. Fox
14 Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra 153 Ann Stoler
15 Culture of Terror ± Space of Death 172 Michael Taussig
16 Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat 187 William Roseberry
17 Of Revelation and Revolution 203 Jean and John Comaroff
18 Between Speech and Silence 213 Susan Gal
19 Facing Power ± Old Insights, New Questions 222 Eric R. Wolf
20 Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System 234 June Nash
Part IV Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium 255 Introduction 257
21 The New World Disorder 261 Benedict Anderson
22 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 271
Arjun Appadurai
23 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony 285 Jonathan Friedman
24 Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations 301 S. P. Reyna
25 Modernity at the Edge of Empire 313 David Nugent
26 Politics on the Periphery 325 Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
27 Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans 338 Aihwa Ong
28 Long-distance Nationalism Defined 356 Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron
29 Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the &‘grave;Transition'' 366 Katherine Verdery
30 Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind 387 Caroline Humphrey
31 The Anti-politics Machine 399 James Ferguson
32 Peasants against Globalization 409 Marc Edelman
33 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 424 Paul Farmer
34 Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy 438 John Gledhill
35 Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality 452 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Index 460