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Author Gardiner Barber, Pauline

Title Confronting Capital : Critique and Engagement in Anthropology
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Routledge studies in anthropology.
Contents pt. I. Politics -- pt. II. Histories -- pt. III. Livelihoods
Summary This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship. It advances the understanding of the struggles of ordinary people in the face of capitalist change. In the current economic moment when such changes are tumultuous and the instabilities of capitalism are starkly revealed, this book responds to the urgent need for theoretical and methodological approaches for understanding the forces that shape our contemporary world. Through ethnographic investigations of the quotidian, and throu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Marxist anthropology.
Political anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing Countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Marxist anthropology
Political anthropology
Form Electronic book
Author Leach, Belinda
Lem, Winnie
ISBN 9781136257483
1136257489
9781283710510
128371051X