The anthropology of politics : a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique / edited by Joan Vincent.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nuer politics: structure and system (1940) -- Nuer ethnicity militarized -- "The bridge": analysis of a social situation in Zululand -- "The bridge" revisited -- Market model, class structure and consent: a reconsideration of Swat political organization -- The troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala -- Stratagems and spoils -- Passages, margins, and poverty: religious symbols of communitas -- Political anthropology -- New proposals for anthropologists -- National liberation -- From the history of colonial anthropology to the anthropology of Western hegemony -- East of Said --Perceptions of protest: defining the dangerous in colonial Sumatra -- Culture of terror - space of death -- Images of the peasant in the consciousness of the Venezuelan proletariat -- Of revelation and revolution -- Between speech and silence -- Facing power - old insights, new questions -- Ethnographic aspects of the world capitalist system -- The new world disorder -- Grassroots globalization and the research imagination -- Transnationalization, socio-political disorder, and ethnification as expressions of declining global hegemony -- Deadly developments and phantasmagoric representations -- Modernity at the edge of empire -- Politics on the periphery -- Flexible citizenship among Chinese cosmopolitans -- Long-distance nationalism defined -- Theorizing socialism: a prologue to the "transition" -- Marx went away but Karl stayed behind -- The anti-politics machine -- Peasants against globalization -- On suffering and structural violence: a view from below -- Anthropology and politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy -- Thinking academic freedom in gendered post-coloniality.