Locating Capitalism in Time and Space: Global Restructurings, Politics, and Identity
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804742383 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 349 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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tyrell said Insightful. Insightful discussion into the development field and the efforts to help the poor. Great read!
In assembling this book, which is a substantial contribution to anthropology, the editor has brought together a very impressive group of major scholars. His Introduction develops a new and important way of conceptualizing the history of anthropological theory.”Gerald Sider, Graduate Center, CUNY
The last several decades have witnessed major restructurings—economic, political, and cultural—in the international arena. The volume contributes to ongoing debates about the degree to which the developments of recent decades represent the advent of a new historical era, a rupture with the past that requires new conceptualizations and logics in order to be understood. Existing standards of scholarship and research methodologies have come under attack, key conceptual categories have been called into question, and truths once considered secure have been subjected to severe scrutiny and even ridicule. Doing so has left the discipline profoundly unsettled. The depth and scope of these changes have prompted anthropologists to rethink many of their most basic assumptions, to problematize issues that have long gone unexamined, and to grapple with new and unique problems. In confronting this question, the contributors to this volume have assembled a range of materials that place the present period of reconstruction in the context of a broader history and geography of other, related restructurings.Locating Capitalism in Time and Space also raises questions about the degree to which the scholarship of recent decades represents a qualitative break with that of the past. Seizing upon the opportunity afforded by the contemporary conjun