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In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld shows how these subversive archaists draw on national histories and past polities to claim legitimacy for their defiance of bureaucratic authority. Although vilified by government authorities as remote, primitive, or dangerous—often as preemptive justification for violent repression—these groups are not revolutionaries and do not reject national identity, but they do question the equation of state and nation. Herzfeld explores the political strengths and vulnerabilities of their deployment of heritage and the weaknesses they expose in the bureaucratic and ethnonational state in an era of accelerated globalization

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE. ENDING THIS BOOK WITHOUT NAZARIO TURPO -- STORY 1. AGREEING TO REMEMBER, TRANSLATING, AND CAREFULLY CO-LABORING -- INTERLUDE ONE. MARIANO TURPO A LEADER IN-AYLLU -- STORY 2. MARIANO ENGAGES "THE LAND STRUGGLE" -- STORY 3. MARIANO'S COSMOPOLITICS -- STORY 4. MARIANO'S ARCHIVE -- INTERLUDE TWO. NAZARIO TURPO -- STORY 5. CHAMANISMO ANDINO IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM -- STORY 6. A COMEDY OF EQUIVOCATIONS -- STORY 7. MUNAYNIYUQ THE OWNER OF T H E W I L L (AND HOW T O CONTROL THAT W I L L) -- EPILOGUE. ETHNOGRAPHIC COSMOPOLITICS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion