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Contradictions and Conflict
Donald V. Kurtz
其他書名
A Dialectical Political Anthropology of a University in Western India
出版BRILL, 1993-12-31
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralEducation / General
ISBN97890040982829004098283
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0X5DquN8LkIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This work analyzes the history of conflict in one Indian university. Scholars representing Maharashtrian Brahman and non-Brahman castes embedded in the university's postgraduate campus and urban and rural colleges have fought for over forty years to control university government. The structure of these castes, institutional and regional contradictions, suggests that conflict will persist. The book explores the history of conflict from 1924 to 1989 and proposes a dialectical methodology to analyze the conflict. It examines the agents and dramatic conflicts that engaged them. Finally, it suggests a dialectical political anthropology for understanding politics anthropologically. The work suggests that a dialectical methodology focused on internal social contradictions provides a superior analysis of conflicts that impel historical agency, and that universities, largely ignored by anthropologists, are exciting reservoirs for ethnographic research.