Anthropology, Politics, and the State Democracy and Violence in South Asia

Name: Anthropology, Politics, and the State Democracy and Violence in South Asia
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ISBN: 9780521777469

ISBN-10: 0521777461

ISBN-13: 9780521777469

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jonathan Spencer

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In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Dehli, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the sub-continent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Jonathan Spencer is Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh.




The strange death of political anthropology



Locating the political



Culture, nation and misery



Performing democracy



The state and self-making



The state and violence



Pluralism in theory, pluralism in practice



Politics and counter-politics