Identifying and Engendering the Forms of Emergent Civil Societies: New Directions in Political Anthropology
20 PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review 1-12, 1997
12 Pages Posted: 8 Jul 2014
Date Written: 1997
Abstract
This introduction provides an overview and bibliography of emerging works around ‘civil society’ in political anthropology. Civil society in the purview of political anthropology provides an array of questions from which kinds of societies a civil society can be forged to what criteria its existence can be measured. Issues of postcoloniality, democracy and the changing role of the state, the historical relationships to European political traditions, the forms that shape national public spheres, and nationalism are all addressed in this special issue.
Keywords: Civil society, Political anthropology
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