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<p><P>Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in<i> Culture, Power, Place</i> demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows of a late capitalist, postcolonial world, the contributors to this volume examine shifts in anthropological thought regarding issues of identity, place, power, and resistance. <br>This collection of both new and well-known essays begins by critically exploring the concepts of locality and community; first, as they have had an impact on contemporary global understandings of displacement and mobility, and, second, as they have had a part in defining identity and subjectivity itself. With sites of discussion ranging from a democratic Spain to a Puerto Rican barrio in North Philadelphia, from Burundian Hutu refugees in Tanzania to Asian landscapes in rural California, from the silk factories of Hangzhou to the long-sought-after home of the Palestinians, these essays examine the int

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Author

Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson (eds.)

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822319344

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Philosophy

Rating

3.97 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14