Books by Anna Tsing
“What this shows us is how we might envisage a kind of global ethnography or anthropology of the forces that structure our lives, which we may cooperate with or resist. In Tsing’s case, this was the heyday of globalisation. Everyone was talking about it, and often in the abstract. But Tsing showed that ‘the global’ is not an abstract force—you can see it in particular encounters, in particular places. Migrant labourers arrive in a forest to log it. Corporations come in to talk to village elders, trying to establish a foothold. When activists start speaking back, they sometimes use the language of international organisations to do it. All this is the work of a globalised world, and it is happening in Indonesia at the same time as it is happening in rust belt America or in any mining site anywhere in the world.” Read more...
The best books on Political Anthropology
Ruben Andersson, Social Scientist
Interviews where books by Anna Tsing were recommended
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Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS
by Emily Martin -
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
by Mary Douglas -
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Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
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The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
by James Ferguson -
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The Incarcerations: BK16 and the Search for Democracy in India
by Alpa Shah
The best books on Political Anthropology, recommended by Ruben Andersson
The best books on Political Anthropology, recommended by Ruben Andersson
Anthropologists look for cultural and political currents reflected in everyday behaviours, says Ruben Andersson, the Oxford academic and author of a new book about the contemporary obsession with self-protection, Age of Security. Here, he recommends five anthropology books that have influenced his work and writing—and reflects on the difficulties of recognising patterns in our own thinking.
