Suchergebnisse

The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. 406 pp.

In the foreword to the first edition, renowned anthropologist, Victor Turner, wrote that this book was a succinct and lucid account of the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the past four decades . . . the introduction we have all been waiting for. Unique in its field, this book offers a comprehensive overview of political anthropology, including its history, its major research findings, and its theoretical concerns both past and present. The third edition has been significantly updated and expanded, with extensive changes in many chapters, two new chapters, a new Preface that repl

Lewellen gives us the first analytic overview of an important new subject area in a field that has long been identified with the study of relatively bounded communities. Globalization refers to the increasing flows of trade, finance, culture, ideas, and people brought about by the sophisticated technology of communications and travel and by the worldwide spread of neoliberal capitalism. Unlike dependency theory and world systems analysis, which tended to assume a bird's-eye perspective, globalization offers a down-and-dirty, ground-up approach in which ethnographic research is not marginal but

Tropical Deforestation: The Human Dimension. Leslie E. Sponsel. Thomas N. Headland, and Robert C. Bailey, eds. New York: Columbia University Press,1996. 365 pp.

An analysis of 13 well-documented cases in which the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in the "successful" destabilization of Third World democracies, constitutional governments, or democratic processes. In 12 of the 13 examples, the intervention was followed by a period of extreme repression. It is argued that CIA intervention so often results in massive human rights violations because such involvement disrupts attempts by Third World states to deal with developmental stresses resulting from multinational penetration of national economies, the rationalization of agriculture, decolonization, & the autonomy of the military. When attempts to adapt to such stresses are blocked by external intervention, state terror becomes necessary to maintain anachronistic political & economic systems. 2 Tables, 57 References. Modified AA

Factions in the church; the "popular church" and the FSLN; conflicts with the Vatican; US activity in relation to religion.

Reagan administration pronouncements on Central America offer a virtual catalogue of methods available to a democratic government for manipulating public opinion. In addition to outright prevarication we find the covering up of human rights abuses, the application of different standards to different countries, the manipulation of statistics, and claims of ignorance about well-documented facts. Over thirty specific examples are given. The Reagan administration ideology holds as self evident that the Soviets are responsible for unrest in the region, that Nicaragua is a totalitarian communist state and that El Salvador is an incipient democracy. Facts have been denied or manufactured to fit these a priori truths