Can I read Culture, Power, Place : Explorations in Critical Anthropology on EtoBox?

Culture, Power, Place : Explorations in Critical Anthropology by Gupta, Akhil (editor);Ferguson, James (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Culture, Power, Place : Explorations in Critical Anthropology about?

Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place 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. 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

Who reads Culture, Power, Place : Explorations in Critical Anthropology?

Author

Gupta, Akhil (editor);Ferguson, James (editor)

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822382089

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Sociology, Social Science

Rating

3.97 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14