Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology

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Acknowledgments vii Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 1 Part I: Space, Culture, Identity Beyond Culture: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 33 National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees / Liisa H. Malkki 52 Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture / John Durham Peters 75 State, Territory, and National Identity Formation in the Two Berlins, 1945-1995 / John Borneman 93 Finding One's Own Place: Asian Landscapes Re-visioned in Rural California / Karen Leonard 118 The Country and the City on the Copperbelt / James Ferguson 137 Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline in China / Lisa Rofel 155 The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism / Akhil Gupta 179 Part II: Culture, Power, Resistance Exile to Compatriot: Transformations in the Social Identity of Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank / George E. Bisharat 203 Third-Worlding at Home / Kristin Koptiuch 234 The Demonic Place of the Not There: Trademark Rumors in the Postindustrial Imaginary / Rosemary J. Coombe 249 Bombs, Bikinis, and the Popes of Rock 'n' Roll: Reflections on Resistance, the Play of Subordinations, and Liberalism in Andalusia and Academia, 1983-1995 / Richard Maddox 277 The Remaking of an Andalusian Pilgrimage Tradition: Debates Regarding Visual (Re)presentation and the Meanings of Locality in a Global Era / Mary M. Crain 291 Works Cited 313 Index 347 Contributors 359