Power and Its Disguises - Second Edition读书介绍

Power and its Disguises examines ways in which anthropology can help us understand a world which is experiencing profound changes in the relationships between governments and the societies they govern. While some developments seem to offer the promise of greater freedom, the New World Order is pregnant with the symptoms of crisis, from the explosive nationalisms of the former Soviet Union and the gunmen of Mogadishu to increasing public cynicism in the West towards politicians and the political process.

In a controversial and thought provoking study, John Gledhill examines the ways in which an analysis of contemporary problems is enhanced by studies of local level and popular social movements, informal networks of power and the processes of resistance, and the interplay of cultural understandings and power politics.

He looks, too, at the political role of anthropology itself — a discipline born of colonialism which nevertheless confronts its practitioners with an uncomfortably close view of the needs and struggles of individuals and communities facing injustice and oppression.

John Gledhill is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the managing editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology and the author of Power and Its Disguises (Pluto Press, 2000).

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