Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology

Reading Gramsci vii Joseph A. Buttigieg Abbreviations x Introduction 1(12) Why Should an Anthropologist Read Gramsci? 3(5) Organization of the Book 8(5) PART I CONTEXTS Gramsci's Life and Work 13(23) `Times of Iron and Fire' 13(6) `History in All its Infinite Variety and Multiplicity' 19(10) `... Something ``Fur Ewig''' 29(7) Anthropology and Culture: Some Assumptions 36(35) Preliminaries 36(2) A Complicated Word 38(4) `... The Informal Logic of Actual Life' 42(3) Cultures as Bounded Entities 45(7) Culture and the Notion of Tradition 52(6) Of Hybrids and Hybridity 58(13) PART II GRAMSCI ON CULTURE Culture and History 71(27) Culture in the Pre-Prison Writings 72(4) Gramsci and Teleology 76(4) Culture and Cultural Revolution in the Prison Notebooks 80(8) `The Ultimately Determining Factor in History' 88(3) Structure and Superstructure 91(7) Subaltern Culture 98(30) Hegemony 99(6) Folklore 105(5) Common Sense and Good Sense 110(5) Explicit and Implicit Conceptions of the World 115(5) Davide Lazzaretti 120(3) Colonialism and Subalternity 123(5) Intellectuals and the Production of Culture 128(37) What Defines the Intellectual? 131(6) Organic and Traditional Intellectuals 137(8) Intellectuals and the Political Party 145(7) Creating a National-Popular Collective Will 152(4) Creating Culture, Creating Intellectuals 156(9) PART III GRAMSCI AND ANTHROPOLOGY Gramsci Now 165(46) Raymond Williams' Gramsci 166(6) `Hegemony Lite' 172(5) Eric Wolf and the Anthropological Project 177(4) Culture and Class in the Later Wolf 181(7) Two Concepts of Class 188(5) Class and Gender 193(3) Tradition, Modernity and Mexican Machismo 196(3) `Hegemony Lite' and Gramsci's Hegemony 199(6) Escaping Subalternity 205(2) A Concluding Note 207(4) Bibliography 211(4) Index 215