Anthropology of Power, Agency, and Morality

Victor de Munck is Professor, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius UniversityElisa J Sobo is Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University

• Preface – Edward SimpsonIntroduction, or: ‘Yes that’s it!’ – Victor de Munck and Elisa J SoboPart I: Contributions to the discipline1 F. G. Bailey’s political anthropology and its malcontents – Felix Girke2 Morality, truth and power in F. G. Bailey’s ethnography of politics – Gitika De3 Politics as theatrical performance and backstage pragmatism: work and legacy of F. G. Bailey – Stanley R. BarrettPart II: Professional mentoring4 Leadership influence: an aperture on ‘character’ – Christopher Griffin5 A personal memory of F. G. Bailey – Gavin Smith6 Mancunian realism and Melanesian anthropology – David LipsetPart III: Individuals in situations7 Negotiating the gap between the ‘ought’ and the ‘is’: older Americans’ strategies – Yohko Tsuji8 Conundrums of caste, history, and truth: Hindu Nadar identities in urban South India – Sara Dickey9 The moral guises of injustice: from Bisipara to Aotearoa – Erica PrussingPart IV: Rules and roles of conflict10 The social construction of the Washington Consensus on international trade policy – Robert H. Wade11 ‘Rules are Weapons’: Can F. G. Bailey’s toolbox aid our understanding of irrigation bureaucracies? – Namika Raby12 Politics and administration in the narrow neck of the hourglass: an account of normative and pragmatic rules in Norwegian local politics – Christian Lo13 ‘Tertius Gaudens aut Tertium Numen? Third-party Roles in Conflict and Conflict Resolution’ – Kevin AvruchPart V: Social change14 Tribe and nation in the Balkans: Bailey’s Concepts of agency, expediency, morality and change in the former Yugoslavia – Mary Kay Gilliland15 Old boys or a new middle class?: Defining leadership through bridge-actions in a Fijian Pentecostal church – Karen J. Brison16 ‘The Need for Enemies’: modernity and malevolence in Tribal India – Andrew Willford