Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
• 1. Locating the political: a political anthropology for today
• How not to use the West as a point of departure
• The distinctiveness of the modern state
• Wider implications of historical discontinuity
• Political anthropology reconstituted
• 2. The origins and limits of coercive power: the anthropology of stateless societies
• The externalization of the political as the negation of power
• Sexual politics in stateless societies
• Civilization, mother of barbarism
• ‘Stateless societies’ under the modern state
• 3. From hierarchy to surveillance: the politics of agrarian civilizations and the rise of the Wester
• Political systems in theories of European development
• A specifically European dynamic?
• Agrarian civilization outside Europe
• 4. The political anthropology of colonialism: a study of domination and resistance
• Structural- functionalist political anthropology as a child of its time
• The colonial process as an object of analysis
• Cracks in the structures: the anthropology of resistance
• 5. Post- colonial states: legacies of history and pressures of modernity
• Regime variation in post- independence Africa
• Deep politics: the state and civil society
• Power relations in the shadow state
• ‘Democratization’ in Latin America
• Mexico: democratization versus the shadow state and militarization
• Indigenous peoples and the state in Mexico and Guatemala
• 6. From macro- structure to micro- process: anthropological analysis of political practice
• Getting at structure through events
• Politics as the activity of political men
• The autonomy of the political field and its symbolic practices
• Insidious strategies of power
• 7. Political process and global disorder : perspectives on contemporary conflict and violence
• Expanding capitalism, declining empires
• Cultural globalization and power
• From the fantasies of Senderology to the roots of political violence in Peru
• Sri Lanka: constructing new orders through violence
• 8. Society against the modern state? The politics of social movements
• Social movements theory: the need for scepticism
• Alternative Modernities
• Cultural politics and political constructions of culture
• Popular politics and the politicization of gender
• 9. Anthropology and politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy
• The politics of anthropological knowledge production: some initial
• Acting on the basis of knowledge
• Commitment at the grassroots
• From knowledge to wisdom?
• Power and its disguises
• Bibliography
• Index
• Abélès, M.,
• 20-1
• 145-7
• academic politics 220-1
• advocacy and participation, possible forms of 236-7
• agrarian civilizations
• 45
• role of the state in, 51
• alternative modernities
• in China 20
• in work of Arturo Escobar, 196
• Amazonia
• nature of chieftainship in, 27-30
• rights of indigenous versus non-indigenous people in, 214
• Anderson, B.
• 73
• 75-6
• 153-4
• 161
• Anderson, P.
• 48
• 49
• 52
• Angola 98-9
• anthropologist as hero 228
• apartheid
• 70-1
• 79-80
• and Zionist Churches, 80
• political economy of, 72
• Appadurai, A.
• 161-2
• 164
• critique of by Aihwa Ong, 165-6
• applied anthropology, politics of 226-7
• APRA [American Popular Revolutionary Alliance]
• 93
• 197
• Arabs versus Berbers in
• 85
• politics in, 97-8
• Argentina, Peronism in 93
• Arrom, S. 205
• Asad, T.
• 18-20
• 69-70
• authoritarianism
• bureaucratic, 62
• bureaucratic, 94
• in African opposition movements, 102
• in post-Soviet successor states, 155
• of colonial states, 73
• of mestizo political culture in Peru and Mexico, 202
• rehabilitation of, in Africa, 101
• US ideological support for, 166
• Ayubi, N.
• 60
• 62
• 165
• Bailey, F.G. 136-8
• Bakker, J.I. 64
• Bamberger, J. 30
• Banks, M. 155
• Barth, F. 136
• Basch, L., N. Glick Schiller and C. Szanton Blanc
• 21
• 163
• Bayart, J-F.
• 95
• 100-2
• 188
• Bensabat Kleinberg, R. 112
• Bhabha, H. 67
• biopower 149
• Bloch, M. 147
• Blondet, C. 208-10
• Bolivia
• election of General Hugo Banzer in, 203
• ethnic relations in, 201-2
• indigenous political movements in, 202-3
• indigenous population in, 119
• katarismo as a fusion of ethnic and class politics in, 203
• politics of former tin miners in, 203-4
• tin miners in, 86
• women’s politics in, 210-12
• Bolívar, Simón 75
• Bosnia
• 45
• 168
• Bougainville, conflict in 86
• Bourdieu, P.
• 131
• 138-44
• 148-9
• 151-2
• 191
• 193
• 195
• definition of habitus, 139
• elitism of, 144
• on class, 141
• on doxa, 140
• on structuralist objectivism, 139
• on symbolic power and misrecognition, 144
• theory of political representationof, 142-4
• use of metaphor of capital by, 138
• bourgeois revolution
• in Britain, 49
• in France, 50
• in Marx’s writings on France, 51
• Bourgois, P. 158
• boy-inseminating practices 35
• Brazil
• as a participant in the world arms trade, 161
• Christian base communities in, 195-6
• infant death in, 229-30
• Movement of the Landless [MST] in, 108
• problems of Cardoso government in, 107-8
• removal of Collor de Mello, 106
• removal of Collor de Mello, 107
• researchof Nancy Scheper-Hughes in, 228
• transition from military rule in, 107
• Vargas regime in, 98
• Workers’ Party [PT] in, 107
• Workers’ Party [PT] in, 228
• Brenner, R.
• 49
• 53
• Brumfiel, E. 38
• Burdick, J. 195-6
• bureaucracy
• 3
• 15
• 54-5
• 61
• 68
• 75-6
• 95
• 99
• 102
• 112
• and fixing of ethnic identities, 76
• and rise of nationalist leaderships in the colonies, 76
• historical bureaucratic societies, 12
• in absolutist states, 54
• in imperial China, 51
• in imperial China, 58-9
• in pre-modern imperial states, 50
• turns ethnicity into an administrative category, 182
• bureaucratization
• 75
• 190
• 193
• as an iron law of oligarchy, 189
• in Islamic states, 60
• of political party organization, 143
• Byzantine empire
• 45
• 59
• caciques [bosses]
• and community politics in Chiapas, 117-8
• in general Mexican politics, 112-3
• in Michoacán, 231
• Cameroon
• politics in, 95
• politics in, 102
• witchcraft and sorcery in, 103
• Cammack, P.
• 93
• 94
• 107
• Camp, R. 114
• Cancian, F. 129
• capillary power
• 150
• 152
• capitalism
• theories of transition to, 48-51
• de-emphasized by Giddens in favour of industrialism, 56
• cargo cults
• 68-9
• 85-6
• Carmack, R. 123
• Carrier, J. 46
• Castañeda, J. 107
• Castells, M.
• 164-5
• 189
• caudillos [revolutionary chieftains in Mexico]
• 111
• 112-3
• 114
• Chagnon, N. 30
• Chant, S. 206
• Chazan, N. et al.
• 87-8
• 94-101
• Chiapas
• 31
• 89
• 111
• 119
• 120-2
• 199
• 233-4
• local-level politics in, 117-8
• local-level politics in, 129
• Chinese empire
• 6
• 40
• 51
• 51
• 58-9
• 58
• and Buddhism, 59
• and nomads on its periphery, 39
• as a capstone state, 55
• as a world system, 59
• measures against feudalization in, 51
• measures against feudalization in, 58
• Christian base communities, internal contradictions of 195-6
• Christianity
• and class struggle, 52
• and Kwaio of Solomon Islands, 83
• and multiple acephalous states system in Europe, 55
• and politics in Mexico, 128
• and village politics in Mexico, 117
• in European development, 52-3
• indigenous forms of in Latin America, 84
• Methodism, 81-3
• protestant evangelicals in Guatemala, 123
• Zionism, 80
• Zionism, 84
• civil society
• and civic consciousness in Africa, 101
• and deep politics of resistance to the state, 100
• and deep politics of resistance to the state, 126
• and post-colonial states, 73
• and shadow state in Africa, 105
• and state in Africa, 101-3
• and state in Europe, 54-5
• and the state inSouthern Europe, 128-9
• as private sphere distinguished from public, 18
• in Islamic world, 60
• in Sri Lanka, 181
• in Western political theory, 13
• in Western political theory, 18
• in work of Stanley Diamond, 23
• project to reshape of Guatemalan military, 123
• structured by hegemonic classifications, 200
• classes on paper
• 141
• 191
• Clastres, P.
• 11-12
• 27-30
• 36
• rejection of universality of coercive power by, 11
• Clifford, J. 238-9
• Cochabamba, Bolivia 201-2
• Cold War
• 56
• 219-20
• Rorty’s defence of, 217
• Collier, G.
• 117-8
• 129
• Colombia
• role of oil companies in, 225
• state crisis in, 108
• colonial capitalism
• impact of on peasant economy in Indochina, 74
• in Africa, 71-2
• colonialism
• and anthropologists, 1-4
• and anthropologists, 69-71
• and indigenous rebellions in Latin America, 85
• and objectification of culture, 82
• and the creation of artificial political units, 5-6
• and transformation of politics in India, 64
• citizenship under, 73
• creation of new classes 75
• in Indochina, 76
• legacy of in Guyana, 90
• old, distinguished from nineteenth century imperialism, 56
• political factors in economics of, 72
• Comaroff, Jean 79-84
• Comaroff, Jean and John
• 68
• 82
• 85
• 89
• 188
• Cooley, J. 186
• counter-insurgency campaigns and war on drugs
• 108-9
• in Chiapas, 111
• in Chiapas, 115
• in Chiapas, 118
• in Guatemala, 122-4
• in Peru, 176
• in US global strategy, 159
• in US global strategy, 166
• covert operations
• and death-squads, 159
• and US role in development of militant Islamic organizations, 161
• and US use of drug-traffickers, 157
• culture, politicization of, and anthropological advocacy 216
• Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc
• 115-6
• 195
• D’Andrade, R. 215
• Dahomey
• as a weak tribute-based state, 39
• gender and state formation in, 23
• de Certeau, M. 196
• De la Peña, G. 113
• deconstructionism
• 67
• 68
• 193
• 220-1
• 239
• Degregori, I.
• 171
• 172
• 174-5
• democracy
• 6-7
• and alternative forms of political accountability, 101
• and indigenous rights politics, 126
• and political parties, 92
• and shadow state power, 104
• as defined by Laclau and Mouffe, 193
• as defined by Mexicans, 114
• concept of transition to, in Latin America, 105-6
• in Africa, 101-2
• liberal, 193-4
• limits to in Mexico, 116-8
• social movements as an alternative form of, 184
• within women’s movements, 212
• deracination, and politics of hate 160
• deterritorialization
• and fundamentalist recreations of identity, 163
• and post-colonial nationalism, 163-4
• development 226
• di Leonardo, M. 241
• Diamond, S.
• 23-4
• 38
• DiGiacomo, S. 224
• Dirks, N. 64-5
• disciplinary power
• 16
• 48
• and institutions, 130
• and Methodism, 82
• and zones of graduated sovereignty, 166
• colonial dimension of, 57
• Foucault’s theory of, 149
• in East Asian states, 20
• in South African mining compounds, 80
• Dresser, D. 115
• Dumont, L.
• 47
• 63-5
• Dunkerley, J.
• 74
• 94
• 106
• 122
• Ehlers, T. 205
• Eisenstadt, S. 12
• El Salvador, compared with Guatemala 122
• environmental politics
• 79
• 184
• and indigenous identity politics, 203
• Eriksen, T.H. 155
• Escobar, A.
• 5
• 109
• 187
• 194
• 196
• 226
• ethical codes
• 217
• 224
• ethnicity
• and colonial bureaucracy, 76
• and global population movements, 161
• and nationalism in Sri Lanka, 148
• as local identities in Guatemala, 124
• in Bolivia, 201-2
• in Chiapas, 118
• in Guatemala, 120
• in Kwaio case, 87
• in Peru, 174
• in Peru, 176-7
• indigenous, historical novelty of contemporary labels for in Mexico, 120
• politicization of, 14
• politicization of, 200
• transformations of in Sr Lanka, 182-3
• Evans-Pritchard, E.E.
• 1-2
• 10-11
• 42-3
• exemplary centre 64
• extended case approach 132
• EZLN [Zapatista Army of National Liberation]
• 110
• 116
• 117-8
• 119
• 121
• 199
• 236
• factors underlying disillusionment with, 118
• Fabian, J. 38
• feudalism
• and capitalist transition in Europe, 49
• and class stratification in Europe, 52
• in Europe, 48
• in Europe, 52
• in France, 51
• Japanese and European, 47
• parcellization of sovereignty in European, 52
• rejection of by Geertz for analysis of Indic polities, 64
• Weberian political definition of, 52
• fieldwork
• 7-8
• 127
• and power relations, 216-7
• and power relations, 234-6
• as dialogue, 239
• Filer, C. 225
• Fordist-Keynesian mode of capitalist regulation 56
• Fortes, M. 10-11
• Foster-Carter, A. 71
• Foucault, M.
• 16
• 57-8
• 67
• 129-30
• 149-52
• 191
• 196
• 224
• contrasted with Bourdieu on theory of domination, 149
• eurocentrism of, 57
• eurocentrism of, 149
• eurocentrism of, 151
• on bourgeois sexuality, 149
• on bourgeois sexuality, 151
• on regimes of truth, 129-30
• on relative autonomy of micro-level power relations, 130
• on strategies, technologies and programmes of power, 150
• on the ‘failure’ of the prison and delinquency, 151
• weakness of account of resistance by, 152
• Foweraker, J. 185
• Frank, A. G. 5
• French revolution
• 50-1
• as a symbol, 75
• Friedman, J.
• 16
• 30
• 49
• Friedrich, P. 113
• Fujimori, Alberto
• 106
• 109
• 171-2
• 176-7
• 193
• 232
• as successful authoritarian ruler, 176
• Gailey, C.
• 26
• 29
• 45
• 46
• 47
• 189
• Gal, S. 89
• galactic polities 64
• games, as model for politics 136-8
• Geertz, C.
• 63-5
• 180
• 219-20
• and modernization theory, 166
• debate with Richard Rorty, 239-40
• gender
• and community activism in urban Mexico, 206
• and feminization as an image of male social debasement, 82
• and machismo as a stereotype in Mexico, 206-7
• and male construction of women’s interests, 207
• and role of women in Sambia ritual, 35
• and role of women in Sambia ritual, 37
• and sexuality in Mexico, 207
• anthropological theories of, 27
• as a metaphor for relations between conquerors and conquered, 25
• biases of male ethnographers, 37
• changing patterns of in Latin America, 205-8
• conflict between men and women in families of former Bolivian tin-miners, 204
• dualism in Mesoamerican cultures, 124
• in Bolivian popular movements, 210-2
• in Christian base communities, 195
• in construction of subject in social movements, 191
• in lineage mode of production, 40
• in Mexican nationalist ideologies, 120
• in village politics in Mexico, 127-8
• gerontocracy
• 26-7
• 34
• 40
• Geschiere, P.
• 100
• 101
• 102
• 103
• Ghana 99-100
• Giddens, A.
• 15-17
• 19
• 48-9
• 55-6
• 149
• Gill, L. 203-4
• Gilsenan, M.
• 60
• 61
• 62
• 93
• 128-9
• Glick Schiller, N. 2
• Glick Schiller, N. and Fouron, G. 163
• globalization
• and social and political change in Sri Lanka, 181
• and the US imperial state, 156-7
• as language for political legitimization of US economic restructuring, 158
• cultural, 14
• cultural, political implications of, 161-7
• Gluckman, M.
• 37
• 70-1
• Gossen, G.
• 31
• 129
• 199
• Gough, K.
• 2
• 221-4
• 237
• view of anthropology as Enlightenment project of, 227
• governmentality
• 149
• 152
• and universities, 218
• in work of Aihwa Ong, 166
• Gramsci, A.
• 20
• 68
• 77-8
• politics of, 78
• Gregor, T. 30
• Guatemala
• brown areas in, 106
• churches in, 123
• coup against first democratic government in, 94
• coup against first democratic government in, 122
• elite in, 123
• escalation of social violence under civilian rule, 160
• ethnic categories in, 120
• export-processing zones in, 122
• indigenous population in, 119
• militarized state in, 122-4
• pan-Mayanism in, 119
• pan-Mayanism in, 124-6
• peace process in, 105-6
• peace process in, 122
• representation of indigenous culture as folklore in, 162
• guerrilla movements
• in contemporary Latin America, 108-9
• in Guatemala, 122
• in Guatemala, 124-5
• Guha, R.
• 67
• 76
• Gutmann, M.
• 37
• 78
• 88
• 120
• 186
• 206-7
• Guyana, post-colonial cultural politics of 90
• habitus
• 139-41
• 147-8
• 155
• 193
• Hale, C.
• 106
• 119
• 202
• Hall, J.
• 15
• 51-2
• 54-5
• 58-63
• Hannerz, U. 158
• Harrison, S.
• 34
• 37
• Harvey, D.
• 56
• on fictitious capital, 157
• Harvey, N.
• 115
• 121
• 194
• 197
• hegemony
• and emulation without deference, 83
• and resistance, 88
• and transnational processes, 161-2
• anthropological uses of concept of, 68
• Gramsci’s concept of, 77-8
• in work of Laclau, 191
• Scott’s interpretation of as dominant ideology thesis, 77
• Hellman, J.
• 185-6
• 189-90
• Herdt, G. 32-7
• hierarchic societies, contrasted with individualistic egalitarian societies 47
• Hispanic, as a political construction 200
• human rights
• and women’s movements in Latin America, 212-3
• critique of discourse of by Petras and Morley, 118-9
• routine violations of in Mexico, 115
• Humphrey, C. 155
• Huntington, S. 166
• Hutchinson, S.
• 2
• 42-3
• Hutnyk, J. 239
• Ikels, C. 59
• imperialism
• capitalist, 56
• capitalist, 71-4
• Japanese, 76
• missionary, 82
• North American, 156-9
• Inca empire
• 24
• as a strong tribute-based state, 39
• indigenous representation of structure of 24
• promotion of local chieftains [kurakas] under, 25
• role of acllas [chosen women] in, 25-6
• India
• critiques of Dumont’s model of politics in, 63-4
• Dumont’s model of caste system in, 47
• intervention of pre-colonial states in society in 65
• model of politics as free-floating in, 63
• political power encompassed by religious status, 47
• translocal organization of Brahmans, 63
• indigenous rights politics
• 79
• and anthropological advocacy, 214
• and anthropological advocacy, 216
• and divisions with non-Indians in radical social movements, 202
• and need for recognition by state, 189
• and NGOs, 106
• and popular nationalism in Mexico, 120
• and Zapatista national consultations, 118
• as distinctive dimension of democratization in Latin America, 119
• as unity in diversity, 119
• as unity in diversity, 121
• exposure of racist and neo-colonial relations by, 202
• in aftermath of military repression in Guatemala 124
• pan-Mayanist form of in Guatemala, 124-6
• versus populares in Latin America, 202
• individualism
• among former Bolivian tin-miners, 204
• bourgeois, 18
• egalitarian, and racism in Australia, 145
• egalitarian, and racism in Australia, 150
• English, 48
• methodological, 136
• methodological, 138
• possessive, 31
• Indonesia
• anthropologists and transmigration programmes in, 225
• colonial political economy of, 72
• communist party [PKI] in, 92
• local-level politics in Acheh province of, 132-5
• political critiques of Geertz’s writing on, 219-20
• role of colonial organization in post-colonial unity of, 76
• internal colonialism, in Guatemala 74
• invented traditions
• 14
• 17
• 46
• Iraq
• 60
• 158
• Islam
• and globalization, 164
• compared with Christianity, 59
• in Indonesia, 134
• in recent Algerian politics, 97-8
• individual in 59
• problem of fundamentalist labelling of, 164-5
• Shi’ism and Sunnism, 60
• tensions between religion and politics in, 61-2
• Jayawardena, C. 132-5
• Jelin, E. 205
• Joseph, G. and Daniel Nugent 114
• JVP [Janata Vimukti Peramuna] 178-82
• Kahn, J. 72
• Kapferer, B.
• 65
• 145
• 147-8
• 150
• 177
• 179-83
• Kaplan, R. 167
• Kearney, M.
• 5
• 21
• 79
• Keesing, R.
• 21
• 67-8
• 83-8
• Kemalism 62
• Kenya, politics in 95
• Knauft, B.
• 27
• 31-2
• 38
• Knight, A.
• 111
• 114
• 187
• Kosovo
• 45
• 158
• Krotz, E. 221
• Kurtz, D. 68
• Kwaio [Solomon Islands]
• denigration of other subalterns by, 87
• ideas about race among, 87
• phases of resistance by, 86
• use of colonial symbols to mark boundaries by, 84-5
• use of parody by, 83
• Laclau, E.
• 185
• 190-4
• and liberal democracy, 193
• concept of hegemony of, 191
• critique by Wood of, 192-3
• Lancaster, R. 186
• Larson, B.
• 87
• 202
• Lattimore, O. 39
• law
• and women’s rights, 205
• anthropologists’ duty to denounce violations of, 236
• as a dimension of political systems, 11
• as focus of political struggles, 18-19
• as product of early state formation, 24
• changes in required for modern capitalism, 49
• civic movements’ demand for rule of, 106
• demand for rule of in Peru, 176-7
• disadvantaging of minorities in democratic societies by, 19
• equality under the, 193
• in ‘stateless’ societies, 27
• in India, 63
• in Islam, 60-1
• in Ottoman empire, 62
• in relation to disciplinary power and surveillance, 16-17
• Kwaio concepts of, 83
• labour draft as restoration of colonial laws in Guatemala 74
• movements demand state recognize their rights under, 145
• reinforcement of undemocratic practices by everyday breaking of, 88
• US violations of international, 157
• US violations of international, 222
• US violations of international, 223
• Leach, B. 158
• Leach, E. 38
• Legassick, M. 72
• Lenin, V.I.
• 5
• 154
• and Bolshevik failure to create the society of their imagination, 81
• on trade union consciousness, 77
• Lewellen, T. 12
• Leyva Solano, X. and G. Ascencio Franco 121
• Leyva Solono, X. 197
• León, R. 210-2
• liberal society
• 20
• and contemporary East Asian capitalism, 166
• and possessive individualism, 31
• disciplined work as a basis for political rights in, 57
• role of colonial race and class systems in shaping of European, 57
• Liberia 103
• local and global
• 22
• and role of mass media in identity formation, 165
• in relation to causes of contemporary political conflict, 156
• in the theories of the rise of the West, 56-8
• inadequacy of seeing alternatives as subsumption or resistance in relationship between, 166-7
• local level politics
• 8
• 127-8
• Lomnitz-Adler, C.
• 112-4
• 120
• 200
• Los Angeles Police Department [LAPD] 170
• Lowie, R. 27
• Macfarlane, A. 48
• Macpherson, C.B. 31
• mafias
• 126
• in former Soviet Union, 155
• Sicilian Mafia, 129
• Sicilian Mafia, 137
• male domination
• and commodification, 31
• and commodification, 37-8
• and warfare in Melanesia, 33-4
• and women’s involvement in the public sphere, 207-8
• as a Western construct, 30-1
• in Amazonia and Melanesia, 31
• in Amazonia, 30
• in Australia, 145
• Mallon, F.
• 114
• 120
• 201-2
• Manchester School
• 3
• 69-70
• 132
• emphasis on colonial context by, 131
• Mann, M.
• 15
• 30
• 51-5
• Marcus, G. 238
• marianismo 205
• Marx, Karl
• 16
• 51
• 227
• Marxism
• 5
• 40-1
• 49
• 52
• 67
• 68
• 69
• 71
• 79
• 84
• 141
• 172
• 190-1
• 196
• 218
• 220
• humanistic versus scientific, 23
• theories of class consciousness in, 77-8
• theories of class consciousness in, 191-2
• Mattiace, S. 115
• McCallum, C.
• 30-1
• 37
• McDonald, J.
• 115
• 116
• Meillassoux, C. 40
• Melucci, A. 185
• Mexico
• alienation from national elite in, 121
• autonomous power of regional bosses in post-revolutionary, 111
• civic culture in, 121
• cliques and shadow state power in, 116
• difficulty of securing full participation in social movements in, 194-5
• events [of 116
• government of Lázaro Cárdenas in, 93-4
• government of Lázaro Cárdenas in, 110-3
• government of Lázaro Cárdenas in, 129
• grassroots feminism in, 206-7
• ideologies of national identity in, 120
• indigenous population in, 119
• infant death in, 231
• land reform programme of Cárdenas in, 110
• limited significance of party political labels in, 117
• militarization of internal security in 118
• narco-politics and political cliques in, 116-7
• neo-populism of Echeverría government in, 112
• new political role of business [in 112
• Party of National Action [PAN] in, 110
• Party of National Action [PAN] in, 112
• Party of National Action [PAN] in, 115-7
• political murders in, 116
• Popular Revolutionary Army [EPR] in, 109
• popular visions of the revolution in, 144
• post-revolutionary recomposition of elites in, 111-2
• PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party], 107
• PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party], 110
• PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party], 112
• PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party], 114-6
• PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party], 117
• PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party], 129
• PRI [Institutional Revolutionary Party], 188
• progress as whitening in, 120
• PT [Labour Party] in, 188
• relations between the EZLN and PRD in, 117
• resistance to domination by estate workers in, 88
• role of cliques [camarillas] in politics of, 114
• role of mestizaje in construction of the nation in, 120
• sinarquista movement in, 111
• sinarquista movement in, 184
• sinarquista movement in, 233
• state and independent trade unions in, 78-9
• state-church conflict in, 111
• the PRI as a party of the state in, 114
• theories of role of caciques in politics of, 112-4
• transition to neoliberalism in, 115
• [PRD] in, 110
• [PRD] in, 115
• [PRD] in, 117-8
• [PRD] in, 194-5
• electoral competition between parties [during the 114-5
• micro-politics of difference 234
• migrant labour
• in contemporary rural societies, 79
• in Guatemala, 74
• in South Africa, 72
• in South Africa, 79
• social consequences of global movements of, 161-3
• social consequences of global movements of, 166
• transnational politics of, 163-4
• transnational politics of, 200-1
• military
• and ethnicized power structures, 161
• and state capitalism in Guatemala, 123
• bureaucratization of in Mexico, 111
• changing role of in Mexico, 118
• in Ecuador, 106
• in Guatemala, 122-4
• in Turkey, 62
• in US imperial state, 157-8
• needfor social histories of in different countries, 119
• regimes as instruments of class domination, 118
• role in ethnic violence in Sri Lanka of, 177
• millenarian movements
• in colonial Latin America, 85
• in Melanesia, 85-6
• of Tupi-Guarani, 28
• Mimica, J. 36
• Mintz, S.
• 6
• 56-7
• Mitchell, T. 58
• MNR [National Revolutionary Movement], Bolivia
• 202-4
• 210
• modernity
• absence of as explanation for conflict, 14
• as a global process, 45
• as a political demand from below, 20
• autonomy of the political as an ideological aspect of, 12
• colonial world as a laboratory of, 57
• crisis of, 187
• inadequacy of theory of based on socio-economic change alone, 48
• industrialized militarism as key dimension of, 56
• not simply a product of a European centre, 57-8
• modernization theorists 166
• Moguel, J. 115
• Molyneux, M. 26
• Moore, B. 51
• moral intuitions, as basis for ethical stance 229
• morality
• of elites, 230
• of elites, 232
• of triage, 229
• Morris, B. 149-50
• motherist movements
• 186
• 212-3
• transformation into general human rights organizations of, 213
• mothers’ clubs 209-10
• Moulder, F.
• 47
• 54
• MRTA [Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement], Peru 176
• MRTK [Túpac Katari Revolutionary Movement], Bolivia
• 202-3
• 211
• Mughal empire 61
• multiple acephalous states system in European development
• 52
• 55
• Murphy, R. 30
• Nairn, T. 49
• narco-politics
• 111
• 160-1
• and Mexican elections, 116
• in Mexico and Colombia, 116
• Nash, J.
• 158
• 204
• 221
• nation-state
• 17
• and industrialism, 56
• and structural adjustment in Africa, 100
• deterritorialized, 21
• deterritorialized, in Haiti, 163-4
• fallacy of non-viability of small, 153
• interaction between regional political cultures and centre in construction of, 114
• supposed threat to from indigenous autonomy movements, 119
• National Security State
• and lumpen intellectuals, 157
• role of anthropologists in, 219-20
• nationalism
• and colonial world, 57
• and local reappropriation of symbols of state power, 114
• and print capitalism, 75-6
• and religion in Sri Lanka, 182
• and transnationalism, 163-4
• as a moral project, 162
• as imagined communities, 75
• as product of modern state formation, 17-18
• construction of in Mexico, 120
• culture of, as enduring Western legacy, 76
• ethnic, and class in Sri Lanka, 181-2
• ethnic, in Sri Lanka, 148
• ethnic, in Sri Lanka, 180
• in Australia, 145
• in Britain, 49-50
• in China and Japan, 76
• in Islamic countries, 61
• long-distance, 161
• long-distance, 163
• of Guatemalan military, 123
• of Guatemalan military, 160
• possibilities for bottom-up reconstruction of in Mexico, 121
• possibilities for bottom-up reconstruction of in Mexico, 201
• related to differing colonial administrative systems, 76
• Nederveen Pieterse, J. 226
• negative workers 228
• neocolonialism 5
• neoliberalism
• and attempt to end land reform in Mexico, 110
• and indigenous rights politics, 119-20
• and socio-economic rights, 119
• in East Asia, 166
• in Mexico, 115
• in Mexico, 118
• in Mexico, 121
• politics in Latin America, 204
• variation in consequences of, in Latin America, 106-7
• New Barbarism thesis 167
• New World Order 153
• NGOs [non-governmental organizations]
• 9
• 106
• 184
• 188
• 190
• 204
• 214
• 215
• Nicaragua
• 157
• 186
• 212
• Nigeria
• 102
• 103
• North Atlantic civilization 56
• Nuer
• 1-2
• changes to political system of under colonial and postcolonial state, 42-4
• guns as a symbol of masculine power among, 43
• political system of as ordered anarchy, 2
• political system of as ordered anarchy, 42
• Nugent, Daniel 114
• Nugent, David
• 20
• 114
• Nugent, S. 214
• Occident as the real problem of 46
• Ong, A.
• 16
• 20
• 49
• 59
• 149
• 164
• 165-6
• definition of transnational by, 165
• orientalism
• 46
• and differences in treatment of Islamic and pre-colonial African states, 70
• and thesis of absence of civil society, 18
• danger of in Geertz’s theatre state model, 65
• Dumont’s theories as a variant of, 47
• Ortner, S.
• 68
• 69
• 89-90
• Ottoman empire
• 6
• 61-2
• feudalization in, 62
• panopticon in, 58
• Panama 157
• paramilitary groups
• and neoliberalism, 109
• in Chiapas, 117
• in Chiapas, 118
• in Chiapas, 233-4
• patron-client relations, in theories of Mediterranean politics 128
• Patterson, T.
• 30
• 38
• 39-41
• Peru
• APRA in, 93
• gamonalismo in, 174
• political construction of ethnicity in 120
• racism in, 176-7
• rondas campesinas in, 196-9
• women’s role in urban social movements in, 208-10
• Petras, J. and M. Morley
• 118-19
• 122
• 156-60
• 167
• pluralism, in Africa 96
• pobladores movement [Chile] 189-90
• political class, in Mexico 114
• political culture
• 20
• African, 102
• as esoteric world of politicians, 142
• popular, in Mexico 144
• regional, in Mexico, 114
• social organization, 12
• socialist, 155
• political representation
• and social movements, 194
• as producer of ‘working class’, 92
• Bourdieu’s theory of, 142-4
• by sectors, in the post-revolutionary Mexican state, 94
• by sectors, in the post-revolutionary Mexican state, 111-12
• by sectors, in the post-revolutionary Mexican state, 113
• by sectors, in the post-revolutionary Mexican state, 120
• political rituals
• 20
• in case of Anzac day in Australia, 145
• in France, 145-7
• Poole, D. and G. Renique
• 166
• 167-77
• 215
• popular liberalism, in Latin America
• 114
• 194
• populism
• 93-4
• 194
• 200
• 202
• and fundamentalist Islam, 62
• and neoliberalism, 107
• and neoliberalism, 108
• and public accountability in Africa, 102
• in Africa, 99-100
• in Brazil, 93
• in Mexico, 93-4
• in Mexico, 112
• in Sri Lanka, 178-9
• theories of Latin American, 93-4
• post-Cold War political imaginary 167
• post-colonial criticism 67-8
• Powell, K. 144
• practice theory 131
• Price, D. 219
• professionalization of
• 7
• 142-3
• Project Camelot 223
• public and private
• 15
• 18
• in Africa, 102
• in models of gender in Latin America, 205-6
• questioned in relation to women’s role in Latin American social movements, 210
• Rabinow, P. 220-1
• Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.
• 10
• 11
• Rambo and kung-fu movies
• in Sierra Leone, 165
• in Tonga, 164
• Rawls, J., problems in political philosophy of 229
• Reno, W. 105
• resistance
• and forms of popular action in Africa, 100-1
• and over simple opposition between dominators and dominated, 88
• and subject positions, 90
• as a rich metaphor, 67
• as defence of spaces of autonomy within oppressive orders, 87
• as unintended consequence of bureaucratic redefinition of the Indian caste system, 76
• critiques of James Scott’s theories of, 78
• critiques of James Scott’s theories of, 89
• displacement of, 87
• everyday, in work of James Scott, 77
• everyday, in work of James Scott, 87-8
• hidden transcripts of, 88
• in off-shore assembly plants, 77
• in relation between national states and localities, 114
• in work of Foucault, 150
• in work of Foucault, 152
• in work of Manuel Castells, 164
• lack of ethnographic thick description in studies of, 69
• popular, traditions of, in Mexico, 120-1
• reactive 87
• reactive 100
• subaltern subcultures of, 87-8
• through ritual practices, 80-1
• through ritual practices, 83-4
• through symbolic inversion, 85
• to capitalism in Bolivian tin mines, 86
• to the culture of civilization in the sphere of kinship, 23
• versus totalizing theories of revolution, 81
• resource mobilization theory
• 185
• 196
• Rey, P-P. 40
• Reyna, S.
• 219-20
• 229
• Richards, P.
• 104-5
• 167-8
• 226
• Rimoldi, M. and E.
• 86
• 88
• rituals of rebellion 37
• Roberts, B.
• 93
• 190
• Roediger, D. 57
• Roman empire
• 45
• 48
• 52
• 58
• territorial organization of, compared with medieval Europe, 53
• rondas campesinas
• and boss rule, 199
• and catechists, 197
• and Sendero Luminoso, 176
• and women, 198-9
• not explicable in terms of autonomous peasant politics, 197-8
• Roosevelt, A. 30
• Rorty, R.
• 234
• 240
• attack on politics of culture and identity by, 217
• Rose, F. 222
• Roseberry, W.
• 68
• 77
• 78
• 87
• 220
• Ross, E.
• 166
• 220
• Rubin, J.
• 111
• 113
• 114
• RUF [Revolutionary United Front] [Sierra Leone]
• 103-5
• 165
• 167-8
• Rus, J.
• 113
• 122
• 129
• Russian empire
• 6
• 154-5
• Safavid empire [Persia] 61
• Sahlins, M. 34
• Sahlins, M. and P. Kirch 38
• Sahlins, P. 19
• Said, E.
• 46
• 67
• 169
• Salman, T. 189-90
• Salzinger, L. 158
• Sambia, New Guinea 32-8
• Sanderson, S. 112
• Saragosa, A. 112
• Scheper-Hughes, N.
• 154
• 215
• 216
• 227-30
• 234
• Scott, D. 239-41
• Scott, J.
• 67
• 68
• 73
• 74
• 77-8
• 80
• 87
• 88-9
• 92
• 152
• selective, in Mexico’s neoliberal transition 115
• Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path]
• appeal to young people, 174-5
• as a politico-military organization, 172-3
• gamonalismo, 174
• rejection of indigenous culture by, 170
• senderologists, 168-72
• senderologists, 215
• shadow states
• and informal markets, 104-5
• as a transformation of the forms of state power, 104
• as barrier to democratization in Latin America, 110
• as barrier to democratization in Latin America, 116-7
• Sierra Leone
• as part of Black Atlantic world, 104
• civil war in not a product of a closed peripheral situation, 165
• civil war in, 104-5
• civil war in, 168
• global media in, 165
• intellectuals in civil war in, 168
• young people in civil war in, 168
• Silverblatt, I. 24-6
• Silverman, S. 138
• Skocpol’s theory of 48
• Skocpol, T.
• 48
• 50
• Smith, C.
• 5
• 123
• 214
• Smith, R.
• 109
• 201
• social dramas 130
• social fields 132
• social movements
• and European leftists, 185-6
• and feminism, 186
• and feminism, 207
• and feminism, 212
• and migrant organizations, 109
• and military rule in Brazil, 107
• and transnational capital in Latin America, 109
• class composition of, 191
• development of [in 159-60
• each other, 184
• fetishization of autonomy of, 189
• fetishization of autonomy of, 194
• importance of analyzing non-participation in, 195-6
• new versus old debate on, 186-7
• problems of eurocentrism in theories of, 187-8
• problems of eurocentrism in theories of, 193-4
• theories of, 185
• women’s role in, 207-13
• social revolution
• 81
• in France, 50-1
• social sciences, place of anthropology in 7-9
• socialist political culture 155
• sorcery
• and terror in Sri Lanka, 180
• in African politics, 103
• South Africa
• effects of deracination in, 160
• experience of Nancy Scheper-Hughes in, 227-8
• Gluckman’s analysis of mechanisms of racist domination in, 70-1
• homelands policy in, 79-80
• political economy of, 72
• Soviet Union
• as an empire, 154-5
• role of countries of former USSR in global arms trade, 161
• russification in, 154
• Spencer, J. 179
• Spivak, G.
• 67-8
• 90
• SPLA [Sudanese People’s Liberation Army]
• 42
• 43
• Sri Lanka
• alternative ontologies in, 148
• caste system in, 64-5
• caste system in, 182
• ethnic violence in, 177-83
• logic of myth in politics of, 147-8
• origins of Sinhala chauvinism in, 178
• paranoid state order in, 180
• role of youth in the JVP insurrection [of 178
• state
• absolutist, 15
• absolutist, 48
• absolutist, 50-1
• absolutist, 54
• absolutist, 56
• administration of land by, in India, 65
• administrative-hegemonic, weaknesses of, 95-6
• and private property rights in Europe, 55
• Australian, and aborigines, 149-50
• autonomy of, in Mexico, 111
• bourgeois, 49-50
• bureaucratic-authoritarian, 94
• capitalist, in contemporary Asia, 165-6
• colonial, 72-3
• colonial, 75-7
• colonial, 87
• colonial, 182
• colonial, and anthropologists, 1-3
• colonial, and anthropologists, 42
• colonial, impact on Nuer of, 42-3
• colonial, role of surveillance in, 73
• constitutionalist compared with absolutist, 54-5
• corporate, 94
• corporate, 111
• custodial, in Indic civilization, 63
• formation of as first rupture in human history, 12
• hierarchic, in Sri Lanka, 148
• Hindu-Buddhist, 62-6
• incoherence of Islamic theories of the, 60
• inegalitarian logic of cosmic, in Sri Lanka, 183
• mass-incorporating, 113
• modern, contrasted with pre-modern states in Europe, 55
• modern, European conceptions of, 10
• modern, theories of distinctiveness of, 15-18
• official, 92
• official, 104
• organic, 55
• origins of, 38
• patrimonial, 99
• post-colonial, 43
• post-colonial, 101-2
• post-colonial, and transnationalism, 163
• post-revolutionary, in Mexico, 111
• pre-modern imperial, 12
• shadow, 153
• shadow, in Africa, 103-5
• shadow, in Mexico, 116-7
• strong versus weak tribute-based 39
• theatre state, in Bali, 63-4
• theatre state, in Bali, 180
• typologies of, in Africa, 94-100
• state clientalism
• 128
• in Brazilian politics, 107
• state terror
• 156
• 160
• 171
• as possessing a dynamic of its own, 159
• in Guatemala, 122
• in Guatemala, 125
• in Peru, 172
• in Peru, 176-7
• in Sri Lanka, 179-80
• legitimated through label of terrorism, 153
• routinization of, 159
• theatricalization of, in Sri Lanka, 179
• stateless societies
• as a negative category, 13
• gender inequalities in, 26-7
• interdependent development with states, 39-41
• resistance to political centralization in, 28
• Stephen, L.
• 109
• 110
• 121
• 186
• 201
• 208
• 210
• 212-3
• Stoler, A.
• 57-8
• 149
• Stoll, D. 124-5
• Strathern, M.
• 27
• 31
• 37
• structural-functionalists
• and theories of urban social change, 81
• colonialism, 70
• ethnocentrism in political anthropology of, 10-11
• versus actor-orientated approaches, 135-6
• Subaltern Studies School 67
• subalterns
• deprived of ability to define own identities, 150
• deprived of ability to define own identities, 154
• difficulties of viewing consciousness of as autonomous, 197-8
• interpretation of behaviour of, 89
• lack of unitary identities and consciousness among, 90
• micro-differentiation among, 89
• post-colonial, as heroic surrogates for intellectuals, 68
• problem of speaking for, 68
• Tambiah, S.
• 64
• 177-9
• Taussig, M. 86
• Therborn, G. 143
• Thompson, E.P. 82
• Touraine, A.
• 185
• 187-8
• 190
• 194
• transactionalism 135-6
• transnational mining companies and civil war in Sierra Leone
• 104
• advocates for indigenous people, 225
• and development of aboriginal movement in Australia, 222
• transnational public sphere
• 106
• 201
• Tshidi Twsana
• 79-84
• 86-7
• impact of Methodist missions on, 81-3
• objectification of culture among, 82
• Turner, B.
• 46
• 48
• 164
• Turner, D. 222
• Turner, V.
• 69
• 130-2
• UCEZ [Unión de Comuneros ‘Emiliano Zapata’], Mexico
• 195
• 202
• ulama
• 59
• integration into Ottoman state of, 61-2
• lack of monopoly in interpretation of, 60
• role in politics of, 59-60
• United States of America
• as an imperial state, 156
• construction of irrational periphery in ideology of, 169-70
• counter-insurgency strategies of, 157
• counter-insurgency strategies of, 159
• counter-insurgency strategies of, 223
• economic restructuring in, 158
• universities
• and ‘audit culture’, 218
• institutional politics of, 220
• UNP [United National Party], Sri Lanka 180-1
• URNG [National Guatemalan Revolutionary Unity] 122
• Van de Port, M. 45
• Vietnam War, anthropological opposition to 221-2
• Vincent, J.
• 2
• 3
• 224
• violence
• and impunity in Mexico, 115
• banal rationality of, 168
• class, 154
• ethnic, 46
• ethnic, 95
• ethnic, 177-83
• in Colombia, 107
• in Guatemala, 125
• in Guatemala, 160
• mutual dynamics of state and JVP in Sri Lanka, 179-80
• not a necessary concomitant of political power, 11
• not a necessary concomitant of political power, 12
• paramilitary, 108-9
• paramilitary, 117
• paramilitary, 118
• towards women in urban Mexico, 206
• Wade, P. 186
• Wallerstein, I.
• 5
• 16
• 59
• 72
• warfare
• 11
• 15
• alternatives to Hobbesian view in Melanesia, 34
• among Sambia, 32-3
• and leadership, 11
• and leadership, 28
• and male domination in Amazonia, 28
• and male domination in Amazonia, 30
• and male domination in Melanesia, 33
• as an impetus to state centralization in Europe, 54
• by slave-raiding states, 39-40
• development of professional armies in European, 54
• in contemporary global order, 153
• in Islamic world, 60-1
• in pre-colonial India, 65
• industrialized, 56
• Warman, A. 121
• Warren, K.
• 106
• 119
• 124
• 125
• 126
• 160
• Weber, M.
• 10-11
• 15
• 16
• 21
• 47
• 52
• 58
• 64
• 81
• 136
• Werbner, R. 67-8
• white race, invention of 57
• Whittaker, E. 203
• Williams, B. 90
• Williams, R. 68
• Wilson, R.
• 106
• 122
• 123-4
• 197
• Wilson, T. and H. Donnan 18
• Wolf, E.
• 1
• 7
• 8
• 10
• 53
• 56
• 71
• 92
• 109
• approach to analyzing power relations and ideology of, 109
• Wolpe, H. 72
• Wood, E.
• 50
• 190
• 192-3
• world arms market 161
• world-systems theory
• 5
• 15-16
• 72
• Worsley, P.
• 4
• 26-7
• 32
• 68-9
• 85-6
• 222
• 223
• Zaire [Democratic Republic of Congo], Mobutu regime in 99
• Zionism
• and reversal of commoditization, 84
• as a form of working class conscious-ness, 81
• as a form of working class conscious-ness, 85
• critiques of by Black intellectuals, 80
• healing of the body in, 84
• transnational origins of, 80
• Zuidema, T. 24