Confronting Capital : Critique and Engagement in Anthropology.

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 wh...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Barber, Pauline Gardiner
Other Authors: Leach, Belinda, Lem, Winnie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in anthropology.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (281 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136257483
1136257489
9781283710510
128371051X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Print version record.