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Abstract
In the last twenty years, the legacy of Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci has soared to new heights. His work has become one of the most cited sources on power and hegemony. He is often used by anthropologists working on issues of culture and power.
This book explores Gramsci's understanding of culture and the links between culture and power in relation to anthropology. Extensive use is made of Gramsci's own writings, including his pre-prison journalism and prison letters as well as the prison notebooks.
The book also provides an account of the intellectual and political contexts within which he was writing. The challenge Grasmci's approach presents to some common anthropological assumptions about the nature of 'culture' is examined as is the potential usefulness of Gramsci's writings for contemporary anthropologists.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| 1. Introduction | 1 | ||
| Why Should an Anthropologist Read Gramsci? | 3 | ||
| Organization of the Book | 8 | ||
| 2. Gramsci's Life and Work | 13 | ||
| Times of Iron and Fire | 13 | ||
| History in All its Infinite Variety and Multiplicity | 19 | ||
| Something \"Fur Ewig | 29 | ||
| 3. Anthropology and Culture: Some Assumptions | 36 | ||
| Preliminaries | 36 | ||
| A Complicated Word | 38 | ||
| ...The Informal logic of Actual Life | 42 | ||
| Cultures as Bounded Entities | 45 | ||
| Culture and the Notion of Tradition | 52 | ||
| Of Hybrids and Hybridity | 58 | ||
| 4. Culture and History | 71 | ||
| Culture in the Pre- Prison Writings | 72 | ||
| Gramsci and Teleology | 76 | ||
| Culture and Cultural Revolution in the Prison Notebooks | 80 | ||
| The Ultimately Determining Factor in History | 88 | ||
| Structure and Superstructure | 91 | ||
| 5. Subaltern Culture | 98 | ||
| Hegemony | 99 | ||
| Folklore | 105 | ||
| Common Sense and Good Sense | 110 | ||
| Explicit and Implicit Conceptions of the World | 115 | ||
| Davide Lazzaretti | 120 | ||
| Colonialism and Subalternity | 123 | ||
| 6. Intellectuals and the Production of Culture | 128 | ||
| What Defines the Intellectual? | 131 | ||
| Organic and Traditional Intellectuals | 137 | ||
| Intellectuals and the Political Party | 145 | ||
| Creating a National- Popular Collective Will | 152 | ||
| Creating Culture, Creating Intellectuals | 156 | ||
| 7. Gramsci Now | 165 | ||
| Raymond Williams' Gramsci | 166 | ||
| 'Hegemony Lite' | 172 | ||
| Eric Wolf and the Anthropological Project | 177 | ||
| Culture and Class in the Later Wolf | 181 | ||
| Two Concepts of Class | 188 | ||
| Class and Gender | 193 | ||
| Tradition, Modernity and Mexican Machismo | 196 | ||
| 'Hegemony Lite' and Gramsci's Hegemony | 199 | ||
| Escaping Subalternity | 205 | ||
| A Concluding Note | 207 | ||
| Bibliography | 211 | ||
| Index | 215 | ||
| Adorno, Theodor 168 | 168 | ||
| alliance building 147-9 | 147 | ||
| Althusser, Louis 168 | 168 | ||
| anthropology 47-8 | 47 | ||
| British 47-8 | 47 | ||
| and 'other' worlds 3-4 | 3 | ||
| and concept of culture 3 | 3 | ||
| and concept of culture 36-66 | 36 | ||
| and concept of culture 196 | 196 | ||
| and history 177 | 177 | ||
| and history 180 | 180 | ||
| and history 181 | 181 | ||
| and journalism 63 | 63 | ||
| and modernity 56-7 | 56 | ||
| and non-Western perspective 3 | 3 | ||
| and non-Western perspective 49-50 | 49 | ||
| and participant observation 4 | 4 | ||
| and participant observation 6 | 6 | ||
| and participant observation 50-1 | 50 | ||
| cultural and social 48-9 | 48 | ||
| fieldwork practices 63 | 63 | ||
| fieldwork practices 64-5 | 64 | ||
| influence of Marxism 176 | 176 | ||
| influence of Marxism 177-81 | 177 | ||
| political economy approach 50-1 | 50 | ||
| practice approach 51 | 51 | ||
| Appadurai, A. 61 | 61 | ||
| Avanti! 15 | 15 |