The Anthropology of Power: Empowerment and Disempowerment in Changing Structures

Description: The Anthropology of Power by Angela Cheater The Anthropology of Power presents case studies from a range of societies and discuses what is actually happening when people talk about empowering others. The contributors question whether power is actually being transferred to the powerless, or whether this is a delusion. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Madawi Al-Rasheed, Kings College, London, Colin Filer, National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea, Rudo Gaidzanwa, University of Zimbabwe, Ngapare Hopa, University of A Author Biography Angela Cheater is the author of a number of influential books in social anthropology, including Social Anthropology: An Alternative Introduction (1986). She has taught social anthropology at the universities of Natal, Zimbabwe, Cape Town and Waikato. Table of Contents 1 Power in the postmodern era 2 Empowering ambiguities 3 The discursive space of schooling: on the theories of power and empowerment in multiculturalism and anti-racism 4 Father did not answer that question: power, gender and globalisation in Europe 5 The reach of the postcolonial state: development, empowerment/disempowerment and technocracy 6 The guardians of power: biodiversity and multiculturality in Colombia 7 The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea 8 Land and re-empowerment: The Waikato case 9 Indigenisation as empowerment? Gender and race in the empowerment discourse in Zimbabwe 10 Exploitation after Marx 11 Evading state control: political protest and technology in Saudi Arabia 12 Authority versus power: a view from social anthropology 13 Speaking truth to power? Some problems using ethnographic methods to influence the formulation of housing policy in South Africa 14 Machiavellian empowerment and disempowerment: the violent political changes in early seventeenth-century Ethiopia Details ISBN0415193893 Short Title ANTHROPOLOGY OF POWER Pages 224 Language English ISBN-10 0415193893 ISBN-13 9780415193894 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 303.3 Series Number 36 Year 1999 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Empowerment and Disempowerment in Changing Structures Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations Illustrations Author Angela Cheater Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780415193894 UK Release Date 1999-02-18 AU Release Date 1999-02-18 NZ Release Date 1999-02-18 Edited by Angela Cheater Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series ASA Monographs Publication Date 1999-02-18 Alternative 9780415193887 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134412978;

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