Description |
1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : illustrations. |
Series |
ASA monographs ; 36 |
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A.S.A. monographs ; 36.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
Chapter 1 Power in the postmodern era / ANGELA CHEATER -- chapter 2 Empowering ambiguities / WENDY JAMES -- chapter 3 The discursive space of schooling -- chapter 4 'Father did not answer that question' -- chapter 5 The reach of the postcolonial state -- chapter 6 The guardians of power -- chapter 7 The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea -- chapter 8 Land and re-empowerment -- chapter 9 Indigenisation as empowerment? -- chapter 10 Exploitation after Marx / ROBERT LAYTON -- chapter 11 Evading state control -- chapter 12 Authority versus power -- chapter 13 Speaking truth to power? -- chapter 14 Machiavellian empowerment and disempowerment. |
Summary |
An edited collection which examines the theoretical issues surrounding power, and particularly empowerment, which uses ethnographic analysis as its basis. It takes material from the Middle East, Canada, Columbia, Australasia and various parts of Europe and Africa. It looks particularly at the extent to which traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in postcolonial or multicultural settings, and at how power relates to economic development, gender and environmentalism. |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Power (Social sciences)
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Political participation.
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Marginality, Social.
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Social change.
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Social change -- Congresses.
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Marginality, Social -- Congresses.
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Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses.
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Political participation -- Congresses.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Marginality, Social. (OCoLC)fst01009156
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Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
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Power (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst01074219
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Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
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Macht.
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Machtsverhoudingen.
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Machtsstrijd.
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Indexed Term |
Empowerment |
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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Added Author |
Cheater, Angela P., editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Anthropology of power. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415193885 9780415193887 (DLC) 98027573 (OCoLC)39313529 |
ISBN |
0415193885 (Cloth) |
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0415193893 (Paper) |
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