Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology

by Gavin Smith and Gavin A. Smith

Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a politically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859732054
• ISBN13: 9781859732052
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"