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| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Locating the political: a political anthropology for today | 1 |
| How not to use the West as a point of departure | 9 | |
| The distinctiveness of the modern state | 17 | |
| Wider implications of historical discontinuity | 20 | |
| Political anthropology reconstituted | 22 | |
| 2 | The origins and limits of coercive power: the anthropology of stateless societies | 24 |
| The externalization of the political as the negation of power | 29 | |
| Sexual politics in stateless societies | 32 | |
| State formation and state origins | 38 | |
| Civilization, mother of barbarism | 43 | |
| 3 | From hierarchy to surveillance: the politics of agrarian civilizations and the rise of the Western national state | 47 |
| Political systems in theories of European development | 50 | |
| A specifically European dynamic? | 54 | |
| Agrarian civilization outside Europe | 60 | |
| 4 | The political anthropology of colonialism: a study of domination and resistance | 70 |
| Structural-functionalist political anthropology as a child of its time | 71 | |
| The colonial process as an object of analysis | 73 | |
| Cracks in the structures: the anthropology of resistance | 80 | |
| 5 | 'Third World' states: legacies of history and pressures of modernity | 94 |
| Regime variation in post-independence Africa | 97 | |
| Deep politics: the state and civil society | 102 | |
| Three Latin American states | 106 | |
| 6 | From macro-structure to micro-process: anthropological analysis of political practice | 123 |
| Getting at structure through events | 127 | |
| Politics as the activity of 'political men' | 131 | |
| The autonomy of the political field and its symbolic practices | 135 | |
| Insidious strategies of power | 147 | |
| 7 | Political process and 'global disorder': perspectives on contemporary conflict and violence | 151 |
| Expanding capitalism, declining empires | 152 | |
| From the fantasies of 'Senderology' to the roots of political violence in Peru | 160 | |
| Sri Lanka: constructing new orders through violence | 172 | |
| 8 | Society against the modern state?: social movements, cultural politics, gender politics | 179 |
| Social movements theory: the need for scepticism | 180 | |
| Alternative modernities | 190 | |
| Cultural politics and political constructions of culture | 194 | |
| Popular politics and the politicization of gender | 198 | |
| 9 | Anthropology and politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy | 207 |
| Acting on the basis of knowledge | 211 | |
| Commitment at the grassroots | 217 | |
| Power and its disguises | 223 | |
| Bibliography | 228 | |
| Index | 241 |
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Fahd Abouabsi
reviewed Power & its disguises on June 09, 2007
Power & its disguises
Either this book is seriously dated (my copy says 1975 on the copyright date) or I just haven't risen to the importance necessary to employ the tactics described in this book. Some of it, like when he says 'people you know are more fun to control than people you don't', made me feel downright greasy. If crap like that is what it takes to get ahead at high levels of power, I'll consider myself blessed just to be a peon.
There are some bits of wisdom and humorous anecdotes on human behavior. If you choose to read this book, do it so you can recognize when some tool tries to play games and subconsciously exert their power on you.
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