18Jun 2018

FROM POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY TO ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLITICS: AN INTRODUCTION.

  • Junior Research Fellow (UGC-NET), Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India.
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Haldia Government College, Debhog, Purba Medinipur 721657 , West Bengal, India.
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The present effort is a compendious review of the theoretical orientations of political anthropology. Authors deliberately unfold the discussion with a paradox between the ?political anthropology? and the ?anthropology of politics? as a key that ought to relate the contemporary multidisciplinary stands of the subfield. It further focuses on the ?troubled history? of the sub-discipline to understand how it intensified sensitivity towards the pervasiveness of the embedded power and politics within the ?everyday? practice. The ubiquitous ?anthropology of politics? essentially prioritizes the increasing politicization of every single anthropological theme which was beyond the matrix of a single review article. So, the present attempt is rather an outline to render the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the century. By focusing on the successive approaches and recent trends authors try to extend the further scope of the interdisciplinary researches on the complexities and challenges of political anthropology within the age of neoliberal globalization.

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[Priti Bhowmick and Pinaki Dey Mullick. (2018); FROM POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY TO ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLITICS: AN INTRODUCTION. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 6 (Jun). 642-647] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Priti Bhowmick
Junior Research Fellow (UGC-NET), Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India.

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/7256      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/7256

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