Anthropologies of modernity; Foucault, governmentality, and life politics.0631228268 Anthropologies of modernity; Foucault, governmentality, and life politics. Ed. by Jonathan Xavier Inda. Blackwell Publishing 2005 280 pages $64.95 Hardcover GN492 Inda (anthropology, U. of California, Santa Barbara) here collects ten articles with either an anthropological slant, (with a practical and ethnological eth·nol·o·gy n. 1. The science that analyzes and compares human cultures, as in social structure, language, religion, and technology; cultural anthropology. 2. bias) or emphasis on the world wide rather than just in the West. Paper topics include colonial governmentality, displacing the panopticon Pa`nop´ti`con n. 1. A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. 2. A room for the exhibition of novelties. Noun 1. with Foucault, graduated sovereignty in Southeast Asia, ethnographies in neoliberal ne·o·lib·er·al·ism n. A political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth. ne governmentality, reforming criminal anthropology, science and citizenship under postsocialism, sociobiology sociobiology, controversial field that studies how natural selection, previously used only to explain the evolution of physical characteristics, shapes behavior in animals and humans. v. biosociality, eugenics, life during wartime Guatamala, and social inequality. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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