TY - BOOK ID - 8317602 TI - Anthropology, politics and the state : democracy and violence in South Asia PY - 2007 SN - 9780521771771 9780521777469 0521777461 0521771773 9780511801853 0511801858 9780511424205 0511424205 9780511421358 0511421354 9780511422256 0511422253 9780511421891 0511421893 9780511423215 0511423217 1107174058 1281775711 9786611775711 0511423721 0511422555 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Politique et culture KW - Violence politique KW - Anthropologie politique KW - Démocratie KW - Political anthropology KW - Politics and culture KW - Political violence KW - Democracy KW - South Asia KW - Politics and government. KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Violence KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - Culture KW - Culture and politics KW - Anthropology, Political KW - Government, Primitive KW - Ethnology KW - Political aspects KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Asia, South KW - Asia, Southern KW - Indian Sub-continent KW - Indian Subcontinent KW - Southern Asia KW - Orient KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8317602 AB - In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11. ER -