Starts from the position that we need to ask what kind of work academics/intellectuals should be doing; and how this might affect the design of the research projects. This is not at all common in books of a similar kind.
Vital theoretical issues are addressed at length and in a highly provocative manner in key chapters that frame the core ethnographic chapters which demonstrate the application of the theoretical issues addressed.
Represents an argument for a particular approach to anthropology and to social enquiry more broadly that the author terms historical realism. He shows how such an approach is an extension of and an advance of approaches referred to as critique of political economy or simply political economy approaches.
Makes a case for historical ethnography.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Chapter 1. Capital: structural, phenomenological, financial
PART II: SCALES OF HISTORY AND POLITICS
Chapter 2. The scales of ethnography: periodizing spatial coherence in early twentieth-century, Spain
Chapter 3. Popular struggle, dissident intellectuals and perspectives in realist history: a case from late twentieth-century Peru
Chapter 4. History's absent presence in the everyday politics of contemporary rural Spain
Chapter 5. On the threshold between everyday practice and historical praxis
PART III: POLITICS' EDGE
Chapter 6. Conditions of possibility: dominant blocs and changing contours of the hegemonic field
Conclusion: Between reflexivity and engagement: tensions in the praxis of intellectuals
References Cited
Index
