This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyondEach chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way aheadAnthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume

This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyondEach chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way aheadAnthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume