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Decolonisation, modernisation, globalisation, the crisis of representation, and the 'cultural turn' in neighbouring disciplines have unsettled anthropology to such an extent that the field's foundations, the subjects of its study as well as its methods and concepts, appear to be eroded. It is now time to take stock and either abandon anthropology as a fundamentally untenable or superfluous project, or to set it on more solid foundations. In this volume some of the world's leading anthropologists - including Vincent Crapanzano, Maurice Godelier, Ulf Hannerz and Adam Kuper - do just that. Reflecting on how to meet the manifold institutional, theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges to the field, as well as on the continued, if not heightened, importance of anthropology in a world where diversity and cultural difference are becoming ever more important economically, politically, and legally, they set upon the task of reconstructing anthropology's foundations and firming up its stance vis-à-vis these challenges. 'With a backward glance at earlier predictions of the demise of anthropology, the essays present a confident account of the future of the discipline. Defining in clear terms what it is that anthropologists do, a well-chosen group of distinguished contributors confront the diversity and internal distinctions that characterize the field, weigh the seriousness of the trend toward interdisciplinary studies in the human sciences, and redefine the strengths of the anthropological mode of knowledge production'. (Shirley Lindenbaum, Professor Emerita, City University of New York)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming -- Millennial Transitions -- Toward a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature -- Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society -- The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras -- Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) -- Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging -- Millennial Coal Face -- Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand -- Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan -- Millenniums Past, Cuba's Future? -- Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia -- Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Power Revealed and Concealed in the NewWorld Order -- 1 Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World -- 2 ''Diabolic Realities'': Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and ''Ritual Murder'' in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media -- 3 ''Who Rules Us Now?'' Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections -- 4 Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia -- 5 Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania -- 6 Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories -- 7 Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics -- 8 Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power -- 9 Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America -- Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Historical Anthropology and Its Vicissitudes -- Part 1 Ethnography and the Archive -- Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History -- Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power -- 2 Colonial Anxieties -- New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth- Century Peru -- The Kabyle Myth: Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity -- Developing Historical Negatives: Race and the (Modernist) Visions of a Colonial State -- 3 Marginal Contexts -- Culture on the Edges: Caribbean Creolization in Historical Context -- Race, Gender, and Historical Narrative in the Reconstruction of a Nation: Remembering and Forgetting the American Civil War -- 4 Archaeologies of the Fantastic -- Fantastic Community -- Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony -- Contributors -- Index