![]() ![]() The field of political anthropology has been, and continues to be, extensive, diverse, and shifting.Īnthropologists have defined politics in different ways, depending on their general theoretical–analytical interests and research questions. Some analyze the symbolic forms and practices of a specific state bureaucracy, others a form of political activism, and yet others the perpetration of terror or torture, or the political effects associated with the everyday and ritual construction of a particular collective memory. Today, it is common to see political anthropologists combine ethnographic work with history. The core of political anthropology is the comparative, fieldwork-based examination of politics in a broad range of historical, social, and cultural settings. ![]() Political anthropology is a subfield of sociocultural anthropology, but like anthropology as a whole, it remains immune to precise delimitation. Christian Krohn-Hansen, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015 Anthropology and the Definition of Politics
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