Radical Egalitarianism : Local Realities, Global Relations
ISBN: 9780823241897 | 0823241890
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Fordham University Press
Pub. Date: 3/4/2013
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In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to develop a historically grounded, ethnographically driven social science. The book's chapters, drawing on research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are also in conversation with the extensive work of editor and contributor Stanley J. Tambiah: They all investigate some aspect of what Tambiah has called "multiple orientations to the world." The implicit focus throughout is on human cultural... MORE
FELICITY AULINO is a PhD candidate in Harvard University's Department of Anthropology.
MIRIAM GOHEEN is Professor of Anthropology-Sociology and Black Studies at Amherst College and editor of The African Studies Review. Her publications include Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Highlands.
STANLEY J. TAMBIAH is Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of ten books, including Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia.
MICHAEL M.J. FISCHER is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at MIT. Among his most recent books is Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry.
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