A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics

The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds. As with A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology reviewed previously (RR 2005/308), this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best.

David Nugent of Colby College, Maine, and Joan Vincent of Barnard College, Columbia University, have brought together an international crew of 31 academic specialists all distinguished in trailblazing, and in giving the venerable discipline of anthropology fresh vigour, and novel insights. Here, politics is taken very broadly, as embracing every...