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In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slum housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after two decades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropology can take a central role in understanding other people's politics, especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11.

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 11
List of illustrations......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
ONE The Strange Death of Political Anthropology......Page 17
Politics and Culture......Page 21
Translation and the Problem of Culture......Page 27
Identifying the Political......Page 30
Introduction......Page 35
Nepal: Dissent in a Lordly Idiom......Page 40
Politics without Culture......Page 48
Politics without the State......Page 54
Culture and Conversation......Page 64
Malinowski’s Ambivalence......Page 72
The Nation and the Universal......Page 79
Coda: The Political Afterlife of Culture......Page 85
FOUR Performing Democracy......Page 88
Elections and Performances......Page 92
Voting as aMoral Phenomenon......Page 95
Excursus: The Passions and the Interests......Page 100
Politics as a Public Phenomenon......Page 103
After Politics......Page 107
FIVE States and Persons......Page 112
Biographies of State and Person......Page 116
Idea and Apparatus......Page 118
Blurred Boundaries......Page 122
Rough Governmentality......Page 125
Boundaries and Performances......Page 130
SIX The State and Violence......Page 134
The Anthropology of the 1983 Violence......Page 136
Towards a Topology of Violence......Page 147
Violence and Sovereignty......Page 149
ACoda onHope......Page 156
SEVEN Pluralism in Theory, Pluralism in Practice......Page 159
Pluralism in Practice......Page 161
The Political Production of ‘Pluralism’......Page 167
Pluralism and the Legal Order......Page 171
Pluralism and the Political......Page 178
Politics as Counter-pluralism......Page 180
Batticaloa, February 2006......Page 184
Counter-politics......Page 189
Politics, Anti-politics, Counter-politics......Page 191
The Political and the Past......Page 193
Anthropology as Counter-politics......Page 197
Bibliography......Page 202
Index......Page 216
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