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The anthropology of power : empowerment and disempowerment in changing structures / edited by Angela Cheater.

By: Cheater, Angela P
Contributor(s): Association of Social Anthropologists
Language: English Publisher: London : Routledge, 1999.Description: x, 213p. : diagr. ; 24cm.ISBN: 0415193893
Contents:
Contents: Power in the postmodern era / A. Cheater; Empowering ambiguities / Wendy James; The discursive space of schooling / Daniel Yon; "Father did not answer the question": power, gender and globalisation in Europe / S.D. Kristmundsdottir; The reach of the postcolonial state / R. Werbner; The guardian of power: biodiversity and multiculturality in Colombia / Peter Wade; The dialectics of negation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer; Land and re-empowerment: the Waikato case / Ngapara K. Hopa; Indigenisation as empowerment? Gender and race in Zimbabwe / R. Gaidzanwa; Exploitation after Marx / Robert Layton; Evading state control: political protest and technology in Saudi Arabia / Madawi al-Rasheed; Authority versus power / Peter Skalnik; Speaking truth to power? South Africa / Andrew Spiegel [et al]; Machiavellian empowerment and disempowerment: early 17th century Ethiopia / Manuel João Ramos.
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Serial Monograph Serial Monograph British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Sanskrit A.S.A Monographs ; (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L70197
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Includes references.

Contents: Power in the postmodern era / A. Cheater; Empowering ambiguities / Wendy James; The discursive space of schooling / Daniel Yon; "Father did not answer the question": power, gender and globalisation in Europe / S.D. Kristmundsdottir; The reach of the postcolonial state / R. Werbner; The guardian of power: biodiversity and multiculturality in Colombia / Peter Wade; The dialectics of negation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer; Land and re-empowerment: the Waikato case / Ngapara K. Hopa; Indigenisation as empowerment? Gender and race in Zimbabwe / R. Gaidzanwa; Exploitation after Marx / Robert Layton; Evading state control: political protest and technology in Saudi Arabia / Madawi al-Rasheed; Authority versus power / Peter Skalnik; Speaking truth to power? South Africa / Andrew Spiegel [et al]; Machiavellian empowerment and disempowerment: early 17th century Ethiopia / Manuel João Ramos.