Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• 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 Western national state
• 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 relations
• 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 dilemmas
• Acting on the basis of knowledge
• Commitment at the grassroots
• From knowledge to wisdom?
• Power and its disguises
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index