A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.

Power and Its Disguises (Anthropology, Culture and Society Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gledhill, John

Anthropology

Pluto Press

Anthropological perspectives on politics.

Power and Its Disguises

'Gledhill manages to cover a lot of ground in drawing out the thematic and theoretical focuses of political anthropology, brilliantly giving them life through a wide variety of empirical examples. . . . The book will serve as a very good introduction to political anthropology for any student of power and politics.' Journal of Peace Research In this fully updated edition of Power and Its Disguises, John Gledhill explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view from below' and revealing forces that shape power relations behind the formal facade of state institutions. Examples are drawn from Brazil, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka, amongst others.

Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

Social Sciences

In this fully updated edition of Power and Its Disguises, John Gledhill explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a ‘view from below’ and revealing forces that shape power relations behind the formal facade of state institutions. Examples are drawn from Brazil, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka, amongst others.

Power And Its Disguises - Second Edition: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

"An analysis of agrarian reform policies and their impact on the rural poor during the Salinas administration (1988-94). Argues that neoliberal policies must be analyzed through the lens of class-based politics, tied to global economic transformations (including migration), and, at the same time, must be specific to Mexico's unique history and relationship to the US"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Neoliberalism, Transnationalization And Rural Poverty: A Case Study Of Michoacan, Mexico

History

Americas

Westview Press

Matthew Smith (1879-1959) is one of the most important British painters of the twentieth century. He trained at the Slade School before moving to France in 1908 where he attended the Atelier Matisse. He spent much of his time working in France between the wars. Initially influenced by Fauvist painting, he evolved a richly intuitive and painterly style using glowing colours. He painted thickly and fluently employing an alla prima technique and the combination of sensual form and colour, particularly in his nudes, has been likened to the work of Delacroix. This book provides for the first time a catalogue of the oil paintings by Matthew Smith from 1905 to 1957 and a substantial critical reappraisal of the artist's work. Gledhill situates the artist in the context of modernism and his Bloomsbury peers and the London Group. Provenance, exhibition catalogues and literature are brought together in extensively detailed entries. Where possible an illustration of each work is provided and the majority of the paintings are illustrated to assist the scholar who up until now has been confronted with a dearth of information on Matthew Smith.

Matthew Smith: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries

"CASI NADA is the result of many months that the author shared the lives of the ejidatarios of Guaracha, Michoacan and of his patient reconstruction of the collective memory concerning a half centry of violence and hope. Without a doubt, it will become obligatory reading for those interested in the themes of agrarian reform, peasant reproduction and political control at the local level. The book will also serve to remind us that, if it is true that Mexican peasants never have supported populist inefficiencies, neither will they become enthusiastic supporters of a neoliberal agenda which condemns them to disappear."- Guillermo de la Peña; Director, CIESAS-Occidente; Guadalajara, Mexico

Casi Nada: A Study of Agrarian Reform in the Homeland of Cardenismo (IMS Studies in Culture and Society)

Business & Money

Industries

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies

In this book, John Gledhill recounts for us the surprising history of a social revolution carried out "from above." In the enormous hacienda of Guaracha, situated in the northwest of the State of Michoacán, only a small group of rebels sympathized with the agrarian ideals of the Mexican Revolution. Faced with the indifference of the majority of the peasants and workers, the owner of the hacienda extrerminated the rebels. Later, the revoutionary government, perceived as abusive, anti-clerical and jacobean, aroused the mistrust and hostility of the people of Guaracha. Thus, the redistribution of land promoted and effectuated Lázaro Cárdenasùthe, great craftsman of Mexican agrarianis, to achieve greater political control over these discontented peasants. But, as Gledhill demonstrates exhaustively, it did not serve to liberate them from poverty, nor to convert them into effective supporters of the regime.

Casi Nada: A Study of Agrarian Reform in the Homeland of Cardenismo (Studies on Culture And Society)

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