The Anthropology of Power

ISBN-13: 9780415193887 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 224 str.

Angela P. Cheater

Opis

Presenting case studies from a wide range of societies, this text discusses 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. This collection draws on ethnographic material from Europe, the Middle East, Austalasia, Africa and the Americas exploring how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in postcolonial and multicultural settings, from civil war to new communication technologies, from religious imperialism to transnational mining investments. They survey the relationships between empowerment and economic development, gender and environmentalism. The contributors confront post-Foucaultian theoretical issues on the nature, distribution and balance of power, and ask whether the rhetoric of empowerment actually masks a lack of change in established power relations.

O autorze

Angela Cheater