1st Edition

After the Crisis Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath

Edited By James G. Carrier Copyright 2016
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath offers a thought-provoking examination of the state of contemporary anthropology, identifying key issues that have confronted the discipline in recent years and linking them to neoliberalism, and suggesting how we might do things differently in the future. The first part of the volume considers how anthropology has... Read more

Introduction – James G. Carrier  



Part I: The Crisis



  Introduction – James G. Carrier 



 1 Anthropology in neoliberalism – James G. Carrier 



 2 Anthropology and neoliberalism – James G. Carrier 



 3 Neoliberal anthropology – James G. Carrier 



  Conclusion – James G. Carrier 



Part II: And After



  Introduction – James G. Carrier 



 4 History, power and the rise of the United States ruling class – Michael Blim 



 5 Migration and insecurity: rethinking mobility in the neoliberal age – Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci 



 6 Looking for a place to stand: theory, field and holism in contemporary anthropology – Sabina Stan 



 7 Seriously enough? Describing or analysing the Native(s)’s Point of View – Eduardo Dullo 



 8 A critical anthropology for the present –
Jeff Maskovsky and Ida Susser 



Conclusion – Josiah Heyman 

Biography

James G. Carrier is Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany. He is also Hon. Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana, USA.