Anthropologies Of Modernity - Foucault, Governmentality And Life Politics

分类: 图书,进口原版,Nonfiction(非虚构类),Social Sciences(社会科学),Anthropology,
品牌: Jonathan Xavier Inda
基本信息出版社:Wiley-Blackwell; 1 (2005年9月12日)精装:288页正文语种:英语ISBN:0631228268条形码:9780631228264商品尺寸:25.4 x 17.4 x 2.7 cm商品重量:653 gASIN:0631228268商品描述内容简介This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault’s contribution to current theories of modernity.
Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations.
Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS.
Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa Ong, Paul Rabinow, and Rayna Rapp.媒体推荐“This is one of the best collections of its kind. Written by leading anthropologists, this volume takes up Foucault’s challenge to modern knowledge and significantly expands the discourse on our current cultural and epistemological predicament.”Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine
“Ranging across colonialism, globalization, technoscience, biosociality, and necropolitics, each gem in this superbly integrated collection demonstrates how anthropologists inspired by Foucault’s ideas about modern government can transcend his Eurocentrism while building on his original provocations.”John Gledhill, University of Manchester