Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology



Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology
By Kate Crehan

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Publisher: University of California Press
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2002-10-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0520236025
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780520236028
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

In the last twenty years Antonio Gramsci has become a major presence in British and American anthropology, especially for anthropologists working on issues of culture and power. This book explores Gramsci's understanding of culture and the links between culture and power. Kate Crehan makes extensive use of Gramsci's own writings, including his preprison journalism and prison letters as well as the prison notebooks. Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology also provides an account of the intellectual and political contexts within which he was writing. Crehan examines the challenge that Gramsci's approach poses to common anthropological assumptions about the nature of "culture" as well as the potential usefulness of Gramsci's writings for contemporary anthropologists.


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