The Anthropology of Politics

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1
Joan Vincent

Part I Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges 15

Introduction 17
Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767) 21
Adam Smith Free-Market Policies (1776) 21
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) 22
Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) 23
Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877) 24
Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) 24
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847) 24
James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) 25

Part II Classics and Classics Revisited 27

Introduction 29

1 Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) 34
E. E. Evans-Pritchard

2 Nuer Ethnicity Militarized 39
Sharon Elaine Hutchinson

3 ``The Bridge'': Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand 53
Max Gluckman

4 ``The Bridge'' Revisited 59
Ronald Frankenberg

5 Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization 65
Talal Asad

6 The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala 82
E. R. Leach

7 Stratagems and Spoils 90
F. G. Bailey

8 Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas 96
Victor W. Turner

9 Political Anthropology 102
Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden

10 New Proposals for Anthropologists 110
Kathleen Gough

11 National Liberation 120
Eric R. Wolf

Part III Imperial Times, Colonial Places 127
Introduction 129

12 From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony 133
Talal Asad

13 East of Said 143
Richard G. Fox

14 Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra 153
Ann Stoler

15 Culture of Terror ± Space of Death 172
Michael Taussig

16 Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat 187
William Roseberry

17 Of Revelation and Revolution 203
Jean and John Comaroff

18 Between Speech and Silence 213
Susan Gal

19 Facing Power ± Old Insights, New Questions 222
Eric R. Wolf

20 Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System 234
June Nash

Part IV Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium 255
Introduction 257

21 The New World Disorder 261
Benedict Anderson

22 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 271

Arjun Appadurai

23 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony 285
Jonathan Friedman

24 Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations 301
S. P. Reyna

25 Modernity at the Edge of Empire 313
David Nugent

26 Politics on the Periphery 325
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

27 Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans 338
Aihwa Ong

28 Long-distance Nationalism Defined 356
Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron

29 Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the ``Transition'' 366
Katherine Verdery

30 Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind 387
Caroline Humphrey

31 The Anti-politics Machine 399
James Ferguson

32 Peasants against Globalization 409
Marc Edelman

33 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 424
Paul Farmer

34 Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy 438
John Gledhill

35 Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality 452
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Index 460