Anthropology of Politics

Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Anthropology and Politics (1990, reissued 1995) and is currently working on an historical ethnography of the Irish famine.

• Acknowledgments viiiIntroduction 1Joan VincentPart I Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges 15Introduction 17Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767) 21Adam Smith Free-Market Policies (1776) 21Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) 22Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) 23Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877) 24Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) 24Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847) 24James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) 25Part II Classics and Classics Revisited 27Introduction 291 Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) 34E. E. Evans-Pritchard2 Nuer Ethnicity Militarized 39Sharon Elaine Hutchinson3 ``The Bridge'': Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand 53Max Gluckman4 ``The Bridge'' Revisited 59Ronald Frankenberg5 Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization 65Talal Asad6 The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala 82E. R. Leach7 Stratagems and Spoils 90F. G. Bailey8 Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas 96Victor W. Turner9 Political Anthropology 102Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden10 New Proposals for Anthropologists 110Kathleen Gough11 National Liberation 120Eric R. WolfPart III Imperial Times, Colonial Places 127Introduction 12912 From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony 133Talal Asad13 East of Said 143Richard G. Fox14 Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra 153Ann Stoler15 Culture of Terror ± Space of Death 172Michael Taussig16 Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat 187William Roseberry17 Of Revelation and Revolution 203Jean and John Comaroff18 Between Speech and Silence 213Susan Gal19 Facing Power ± Old Insights, New Questions 222Eric R. Wolf20 Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System 234June NashPart IV Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium 255Introduction 25721 The New World Disorder 261Benedict Anderson22 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 271Arjun Appadurai23 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony 285Jonathan Friedman24 Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations 301S. P. Reyna25 Modernity at the Edge of Empire 313David Nugent26 Politics on the Periphery 325Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing27 Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans 338Aihwa Ong28 Long-distance Nationalism Defined 356Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron29 Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the ``Transition'' 366Katherine Verdery30 Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind 387Caroline Humphrey31 The Anti-politics Machine 399James Ferguson32 Peasants against Globalization 409Marc Edelman33 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 424Paul Farmer34 Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy 438John Gledhill35 Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality 452Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakIndex 460

"The best and most provocative essays by anthropologists on politics, power, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This volume showcases the strengths of anthropological analysis: bringing detailed ethnographic and historical analysis to the understanding of the most pressing issues that contemporary societies face." Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico "Joan Vincent has a rare grasp of anthropology's past and vision of its future. The twenty-first-century renewal of political anthropology will be excellently served by her thoughtful assemblage of foundational texts, modern classics, recent achievements, and current controversies." Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University "In this incomparable volume, Joan Vincent has brilliantly compiled the key texts in the anthropological study of politics. Suitable as a textbook for the beginning student and as a reference work for the professional academic, it will appeal to scholars in many different disciplines. Not only does this volume provide readers with a genealogy of an anthropological approach to politics, it introduces or reacquaints them with some of its most important contemporary contributors." Akhil Gupta, Stanford University