Anthropology And Political Science

Author : Myron J. Aronoff,Jan Kubik
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857457257

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Anthropology and Political Science by Myron J. Aronoff,Jan Kubik Pdf

What can anthropology and political science learn from each other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the area of concepts and methodologies, is tremendously beneficial for both disciplines, though they also deal with some troubling aspects of the relationship. Focusing on the influence of anthropology on political science, the book examines the basic assumptions the practitioners of each discipline make about the nature of social and political reality, compares some of the key concepts each field employs, and provides an extensive review of the basic methods of research that "bridge" both disciplines: ethnography and case study. Through ethnography (participant observation), reliance on extended case studies, and the use of "anthropological" concepts and sensibilities, a greater understanding of some of the most challenging issues of the day can be gained. For example, political anthropology challenges the illusion of the "autonomy of the political" assumed by political science to characterize so-called modern societies. Several chapters include a cross-disciplinary analysis of key concepts and issues: political culture, political ritual, the politics of collective identity, democratization in divided societies, conflict resolution, civil society, and the politics of post-Communist transformations.

Author : Sir John Linton Myres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:760444752

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The Influence of Anthropology on the Course of Political Science by Sir John Linton Myres Pdf

Author : Harald Wydra,Bjørn Thomassen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781783479016

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Handbook of Political Anthropology by Harald Wydra,Bjørn Thomassen Pdf

This Handbook engages the reader in the major debates, approaches, methodologies, and explanatory frames within political anthropology. Examining the shifting borders of a moving field of enquiry, it illustrates disciplinary paradigm shifts, the role of humans in political structures, ethnographies of the political, and global processes. Reflecting the variety of directions that surround political anthropology today, this volume will be essential reading to understanding the interactions of humans within political frames in a globalising world.

Author : Sir John Linton Myres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:978067965

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The Influence of Anthropology on the Course of Political Science by Sir John Linton Myres Pdf

Author : Sir John Linton Myres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:222180792

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The Influence of Anthropology on the Course of Political Science by Sir John Linton Myres Pdf

Author : Cris Shore,Susan Wright,Davide Però
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857451170

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Policy Worlds by Cris Shore,Susan Wright,Davide Però Pdf

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new sets of relations. Anthropologists do not stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them.

Author : John Linton Myres,Frederick John Teggart,John James Van Nostrand
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347261532

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The Influence of Anthropology on the Course of Political Science by John Linton Myres,Frederick John Teggart,John James Van Nostrand Pdf

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Author : Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789209808

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Ethnographies of Power by Tristan Loloum,Simone Abram,Nathalie Ortar Pdf

Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.

Author : Gerrit Huizer,Bruce Mannheim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110806458

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The Politics of Anthropology by Gerrit Huizer,Bruce Mannheim Pdf

Author : Frederick John 1870-1946 Teggart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1371945748

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INFLUENCE OF ANTHROPOLOGY ON T by Frederick John 1870-1946 Teggart Pdf

Author : Gavin Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000180879

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Confronting the Present by Gavin Smith Pdf

Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a politically relevant anthropology? This book examines these concerns in light of the author's shift from the study of rather distant people to people and places closer to home - a trend to be found within the discipline as a whole. How should anthropology respond to this change, as it increasingly finds itself in stamping grounds where other disciplines are already well-entrenched? How will work being done in anthropology intersect with that in other disciplines? Will anthropologists have anything to offer debates that have been ongoing in these other disciplines, such as those relating to social citizenship and collective identity, regionalism and the constitution of space and place, hegemony and resistance, political organization and cultural expression? Conversely, what can anthropologists learn from the way other disciplines formulate these issues and problems?Written to provoke discussion, this timely book aims to initiate a dialogue not only with anthropologists, but also with those in related disciplines who share a concern with people, politics and modernity. As well as anthropologists, the issues it tackles will be of interest to geographers, economists, political scientists, social historians and sociologists.

Author : Donald V Kurtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429977893

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Political Anthropology by Donald V Kurtz Pdf

The field of political anthropology is complicated by a breadth and depth of interests that include every kind of ethnographically and historically represented political community, and nearly every kind of recorded political practice, behavior, and organization. To make sense of this array of information, political anthropologists examine political topics and issues in the context of research paradigms that include structural-functionalism, pro-cessualism, political economy, political evolution, and, arguably, post-modernism. In Political Anthropology, Donald V. Kurtz examines how anthropologists think about politics, political organizations, and problems fundamental to political anthropology. He explores the ideas with which they address universal political concerns, the paradigms that direct political research by anthropologists, and political topics of special interest.

Author : Lara Deeb,Jessica Winegar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804796842

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Anthropology's Politics by Lara Deeb,Jessica Winegar Pdf

U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as "useless" or "biased" by right-wing forces. What happens when the two concerns meet, when such accusations target the researchers and research of a region so central to U.S. military interests? This book is the first academic study to shed critical light on the political and economic pressures that shape how U.S. scholars research and teach about the Middle East. Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar show how Middle East politics and U.S. gender and race hierarchies affect scholars across their careers—from the first decisions to conduct research in the tumultuous region, to ongoing politicized pressures from colleagues, students, and outside groups, to hurdles in sharing expertise with the public. They detail how academia, even within anthropology, an assumed "liberal" discipline, is infused with sexism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionist obstruction of any criticism of the Israeli state. Anthropology's Politics offers a complex portrait of how academic politics ultimately hinders the education of U.S. students and potentially limits the public's access to critical knowledge about the Middle East.

Author : Noel Dyck,James B. Waldram
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773563711

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Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada by Noel Dyck,James B. Waldram Pdf

The essays in Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada provide a comprehensive evaluation of past, present, and future forms of anthropological involvement in public policy issues that affect Native peoples in Canada. The contributing authors, who include social scientists and politicians from both Native and non-Native backgrounds, use their experience to assess the theory and practice of anthropological participation in and observation of relations between aboriginal peoples and governments in Canada. They trace the strengths and weaknesses of traditional forms of anthropological fieldwork and writing, as well as offering innovative solutions to some of the challenges confronting anthropologists working in this domain. In addition to Noel Dyck and James Waldram, the contributing authors are Peggy Martin Brizinski, Julie Cruikshank, Peter Douglas Elias, Julia D. Harrison, Ron Ignace, Joseph M. Kaufert, Patricia Leyland Kaufert, William W. Koolage, John O'Neil, Joe Sawchuk, Colin H. Scott, Derek G. Smith, George Speck, Renee Taylor, Peter J. Usher, and Sally M. Weaver.

Author : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Community power
ISBN : 9780415330596

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Political Systems and the Distribution of Power by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference Pdf

Modern political anthropology began in 1940 with the first systematic comparative studies of how primitive societies maintained law and order. The focus was on government and the presence or absence of state institutions. Recently, interest has shifted to the study of power, to examining the manipulation of political relations, and to the task of elaborating a classification of governmental systems that will throw light on the important problems for research. First published in 1965.