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1、TheAnthropologyofPowerTheAnthropologyofPowerpresentscasestudiesfromawiderangeofsocietiesanddiscusseswhatisactuallyhappeningwhenpeopletalkabout‘empowering’others.Thecontributorsquestionwhetherpowerisactuallybeingtransferredtothepowerless,orwhetherthisisadelusion.Thiscollectiondrawsonethnograp
2、hicmaterialfromEurope,theMiddleEast,Australasia,AfricaandtheAmericas,exploringhowtraditionallydisempoweredgroupsgaininfluenceinpostcolonialandmulticulturalsettings,fromcivilwartonewcommunicationtechnologies,fromreligiousimperialismtotransnationalmininginvestments.Itsurveystherelationshipsbet
3、weenempowermentandeconomicdevelopment,genderandenvironmentalism.Thecontributorsconfrontpost-Foucauldiantheoreticalissuesonthenature,distributionandbalanceofpower,andaskwhethertherhetoricof‘empowerment’actuallymasksalackofchangeinestablishedpowerrelations.Thiswillmakechallengingreadingforallt
4、hoseinterestedintheoreticalissuesofpowerinthepostmodernera.AngelaCheateristheauthorofanumberofinfluentialbooksinsocialanthropology,includingSocialAnthropology:AnAlternativeIntroduction(1986).ShehastaughtsocialanthropologyattheuniversitiesofNatal,Zimbabwe,CapeTownandWaikato.ASAMonographs36Tit
5、lesavailable:24ReasonandMoralityEditedbyJoannaOvering29AnthropologyandAutobiographyEditedbyJudithOkelyandHelenCallaway30ContemporaryFutures:PerspectivesfromSocialAnthropologyEditedbySandraWallman31Socialism:Ideals,Ideologies,andLocalPracticeEditedbyC.M.Hann32Environmentalism:TheViewfromAnthr
6、opologyEditedbyKayMilton33QuestionsofConsciousnessEditedbyAnthonyP.CohenandNigelRapport34AfterWritingCultureEditedbyAllisonJames,JennyHockeyandAndrewDawson35Food,HealthandIdentityEditedbyPatCaplanTheAnthropologyofPowerEmpowermentanddisempowermentinchangingstructuresEditedbyAngelaCheaterLondo
7、nandNewYorkFirstpublished1999byRoutledge11NewFetterLane,LondonEC4P4EEThiseditionpublishedintheTaylor&Francise-Library,2005.“TopurchaseyourowncopyofthisoranyofTaylor&FrancisorRoutledge’scollectionofthousandsofeBookspleasegotowww.eBookstore.tandf.co.