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ISBN: 0801482283 0801430615 1501725025 9781501725029 9780801430619 9780801482281 Year: 1996 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press
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Focusing on the problem of time-the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity-Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. A Moment's Notice suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.
Political anthropology. --- Time --- Social aspects. --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Political science --- Anthropological aspects
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ISBN: 2020258714 9782020258715 Year: 1996 Publisher: Paris Seuil
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Political science --- Sociology and political science --- Political anthropology --- Science politique --- Sociologie et politique --- Anthropologie politique --- Philosophy --- History --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Political anthropology. --- Political sociology. --- Social classes. --- Philosophy. --- Political sociology --- Social classes --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Sociology --- Political philosophy --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Sociological aspects --- Anthropological aspects
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