Culture, Power, Place

Akhil Gupta is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

"This collection presses forward the agenda of rethinking the anthropological keywords of 'culture' and 'society,' and towards an expansion of flexible yet rigorous ways of understanding the shifting terms of cultural tradition and political economy in the contemporary world."--Orin Starn, Duke University

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