Culture, Power, Place

"This collection presses forward the agenda of rethinking the anthropological keywords of 'culture' and 'society,' and towards an expansion of flexible yet rigorous ways of understanding the shifting terms of cultural tradition and political economy in the contemporary world."--Orin Starn, Duke University

Acknowledgments vii

Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 1

Part I: Space, Culture, Identity

Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference / Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson 33

National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees / Liisa H. Malkki 52

Seeing Bifocally: Media, Place, Culture / John Durham Peters 75

State, Territory, and National Identity Formation in the Two Berlins, 1945–1995 / John Borneman 93

Finding One's Own Place: Asian Landscapes Re-visioned in Rural California / Karen Leonard 118

The Country and the City on the Copperbelt / James Ferguson 137

Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline in China / Lisa Rofel 155

The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism / Akhil Gupta 179

Part II: Culture, Power, Resistance

Exile to Compatriot: Transformations in the Social Identity of Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank / George E. Bisharat 203

Third-Worlding at Home / Kristin Koptiuch 234

The Demonic Place of the "Not There": Trademark Rumors in the Postindustrial Imaginary / Rosemary J. Coombe 249

Bombs, Bikinis, and the Popes of Rock 'n' Roll: Reflections on Resistance, the Play of Subordinations, and Liberalism in Andalusia and Academia, 1983–1995 / Richard Maddox 277

The Remaking of an Andalusian Pilgrimage Tradition: Debates Regarding Visual (Re)presentation and the Meanings of "Locality" in a Global Era / Mary M. Crain 291

Works Cited 313

Index 347

Contributors 359