Confronting capital: critique and engagement in anthropology

Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction: Confronting Anthropology—The Critical Enquiry of Capitalism 1
PAULINE GARDINER BARBER, BELINDA LEACH AND WINNIE LEM
PART I Politics
2 Making Connections: The Politics of Intellectual Labor in Colombia 17
LESLEY GILL
3 Security Anthropology and Northern Morazán, El Salvador: Confronting the Present There and Elsewhere 36
LEIGH BINFORD
4 Effective Politics: Band Elections and Decision Making in a Northern Onario Anishnaabek Community 53
KRYSTYNA SIECIECHOWICZ
5 The Soviet Revenge: How the Unrecognized Soviet-Style Mechanisms of Contemporary Finance Capitalism Cause Social Crisis and Catastrophe in the West 76
DON KALB AND OANE VISSER
PART II - Histories
6 To Die in the Silence of History: Tuberculosis Epidemics and Yup’ik Peoples of Southwestern Alaska 97
LINDA GREEN
7 Not the Same Old Stories: Labor Anthropology, Vulnerabilities, and Solidarity Struggles 113
BELINDA LEACH
8 Native Livelihoods and Capital Punishment in the Carolinas and Labrador 130
GERALD SIDER
9 “They Say We Aren’t From Around Here”: The Production of Culture Among a Displaced People 147
GASTÓN GORDILLO
PART III
Livelihoods
10 Global Connections and Disconnections: Space and Labor in
Mumbai’s Slums 163
JUDITH WHITEHEAD
11 Ghostly Figures Outside the Domain of Political Economy: Class Analysis and the Invisiblized Livelihoods of an Andean
Export Zone 187
CHRISTOPHER KRUPA
12 Humanitarian to Livelihood Approaches: A View from the Dadaab Refugee Camps in Kenya 208
WENONA GILES
13 Gender Mainstreaming and Market Fundamentalism in Rural Yucatán, Mexico 222
MARIE FRANCE LABRECQUE
14 Alternatives to Expanded Accumulation and the Anthropological Imagination: Turning Necessity into a Challenge to Capitalism? 239
SUSANA NAROTZKY
15 Afterword: In Defense of Historical Realist Anthropology 253
GAVIN SMITH
Contributors 259
Index 265