Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Introduction: Global Savage; Part I: Returning to a Theory of Social Formation; Chapter 2 -- Social Relations in Tension; Chapter 3 -- Contending Approaches in Outline; Chapter 4 -- Theory in the Shadow of Terror; Part II: Rethinking Formations of Practice and Being; Chapter 5 -- Constituting Customary Community; Chapter 6 -- Communication and Exchange, Money and Writing; Chapter 7 -- Time and Space, Calendars and Maps; Chapter 8 -- Bodies and Symbols, Blood and Milk; Part III: Rewriting the History of the Present; Chapter 9 -- State Formation
Summary
Establishing a new basis for understanding the changing nature of polity and community, this work charts the contradictions and tensions we all encounter in an era of increasing globalization from genocide and terrorism to television and finance capital