Anthropologies of Revolution

Forging Time, People, and Worlds

• Author(s): Igor Cherstich, Martin Holbraad, Nico Tassi,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 212
• ISBN_10: 0520343794
  ISBN_13: 9780520343795
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity , History / World , Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy ,

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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.