Power and Its Disguises - Second Edition : Anthropological Perspectives on Politics

Preface to the Second Edition vii Locating the political: a political anthropology for today 1(22) How not to use the West as a point of departure 8(7) The distinctiveness of the modern state 15(3) Wider implications of historical discontinuity 18(2) Political anthropology reconstituted 20(3) The origins and limits of coercive power: the anthropology of stateless societies 23(22) The externalization of the political as the negation of power 27(5) Sexual politics in stateless societies 32(6) Civilization, mother of barbarism 38(3) `Stateless societies' under the modern state 41(4) From hierarchy to surveillance: the politics of agrarian civilizations and the rise of the Western national state 45(22) Political systems in theories of European development 48(3) A specifically European dynamic? 51(7) Agarian civilization outside Europe 58(9) The political anthropology of colonialism: a study of domination and resistance 67(25) Structural-functionalist political anthropology as a child of its time 69(2) The colonial process as an object of analysis 71(6) Cracks in the structures: the anthropology of resistance 77(15) Post-colonial states: legacies of history and pressures of modernity 92(35) Regime variation in post-independence Africa 94(6) Deep politics: the state and civil society 100(3) Power relations in the shadow state 103(2) `Democratization' in Latin America 105(5) Mexico: democratization versus the shadow state and militarization 110(9) Indigenous peoples and the state in Mexico and Guatemala 119(8) From macro-structure to micro-process: anthropological analysis of political practice 127(26) Getting at structure through events 130(5) Politics as the activity of `political men' 135(3) The autonomy of the political field and its symbolic practices 138(11) Insidious strategies of power 149(4) Political process and `global disorder': perspectives on contemporary conflict and violence 153(31) Expanding capitalism, declining empires 154(7) Cultural globalization and power relations 161(6) From the fantasies of `Senderology' to the roots of political violence in Peru 167(10) Sri Lanka: constructing new orders through violence 177(7) Society against the modern state? The politics of social movements 184(30) Social movements theory: the need for scepticism 185(11) Alternative modernities 196(3) Cultural politics and political constructions of culture 199(6) Popular politics and the politicization of gender 205(9) Anthropology and politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy 214(29) The politics of anthropological knowledge production: some initial dilemmas 215(6) Acting on the basis of knowledge 221(6) Commitment at the grassroots 227(7) From knowledge to wisdom? 234(4) Power and its disguises 238(5) Bibliography 243(16) Index 259