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Through a historical ethnography of Santos, Brazil, Progress in the Balance addresses and assesses an anthropological theory of progress. Observing that anthropology is a progressive discipline with a pessimistic attitude towards progress, Daniel Reichman explains the contested meanings of progress in Brazil and explores how anthropologists and others can define this concept more generally. He investigates how any society can separate "progress" from plain old change and, if change is constantly happening all around us, how and why certain events get lifted out of a normal timeframe and into a mythic narrative of progress.Each chapter outlines a particular episode in the history of Santos, a city undergoing an unprecedented period of economic and political turmoil, as it is represented in public culture, mainly through museums, monuments, art, and public events. Drawing on the anthropology of myth, Reichman proposes a model that he refers to as a "clash of timescapes." Progress in the Balance shows how this concept of "progress" requires a different temporal structure that separates sacralized social change from mundane historical events

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Integration and Disintegration -- 1. American Dream, American Work: Fantasies and Realities of Honduran Migrants -- 2. The Needy, the Greedy, and the Lazy: The Moral Universe of Migration -- 3. The Ashes of Progress: A Biography after Modernization -- 4. The Devil Has Been Destroyed: Mediation and Christian Citizenship -- 5. Justice at a Price: Risk and Regulation in the Global Coffee Market -- 6. Global Sociality, Postmodernity, and Neopopulism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld shows how these subversive archaists draw on national histories and past polities to claim legitimacy for their defiance of bureaucratic authority. Although vilified by government authorities as remote, primitive, or dangerous—often as preemptive justification for violent repression—these groups are not revolutionaries and do not reject national identity, but they do question the equation of state and nation. Herzfeld explores the political strengths and vulnerabilities of their deployment of heritage and the weaknesses they expose in the bureaucratic and ethnonational state in an era of accelerated globalization

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE. ENDING THIS BOOK WITHOUT NAZARIO TURPO -- STORY 1. AGREEING TO REMEMBER, TRANSLATING, AND CAREFULLY CO-LABORING -- INTERLUDE ONE. MARIANO TURPO A LEADER IN-AYLLU -- STORY 2. MARIANO ENGAGES "THE LAND STRUGGLE" -- STORY 3. MARIANO'S COSMOPOLITICS -- STORY 4. MARIANO'S ARCHIVE -- INTERLUDE TWO. NAZARIO TURPO -- STORY 5. CHAMANISMO ANDINO IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM -- STORY 6. A COMEDY OF EQUIVOCATIONS -- STORY 7. MUNAYNIYUQ THE OWNER OF T H E W I L L (AND HOW T O CONTROL THAT W I L L) -- EPILOGUE. ETHNOGRAPHIC COSMOPOLITICS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX