Anthropologies of revolution forging time, people, and worlds

"What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people...

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Main Authors: Cherstich, Igor, Holbraad, Martin (Author), Tassi, Nico (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]©2020, 2020
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505 0 |a Introduction : multiplying revolutions -- Revolution as event : ritual, violence, transformation -- State and revolution : nations, tribes, and lineages -- The revolutionary person : penitence, sacrifice, and the new man -- The revolutionary leader : charisma, authority, and exception -- Revolution and ideology : truth, lies, and mediation -- Revolution cosmologies : spirits, myths, worlds -- Conclusion : worlds in revolution 
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520 |a "What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people's lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence"--