Anthropology, politics and the state : democracy and violence in South Asia / Jonathan Spencer.

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Spencer, Jonathan, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New departures in anthropologyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780511801853
0511801858
9780511424205
0511424205
9780511421358
0511421354
9780511422256
0511422253
9780511421891
0511421893
9780511423215
0511423217

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Anthropology, politics and the state.DDC classification:

306.20954 22

LOC classification:

GN635.S57 S68 2007eb

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73.70

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Contents:

1. The strange death of political anthropology -- 2. Locating the political -- 3. Culture, nation and misery -- 4. Performing democracy -- 5. States and persons -- 6. The state and violence -- 7. Pluralism in theory, pluralism in practice -- 8. Politics and counter-politics.

Review: "In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the sub-continent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11"--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-199) and index.

"In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the sub-continent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11"--Jacket

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