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| ISBN: | 9781003084488
1003084486
1000182312
9781000188943
1000188949
9781000185492
1000185494
9781000182316
9781350089600
1350089605
9781350089594
1350089591
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open Access
Emma Crewe is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, UK.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing Parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe's insights deepen our understanding of the complexity of political institutions. She reveals how elected politicians navigate relationships by forging alliances and thwarting opponents; parliamentary buildings are constructed as sites of work, debate and the nation in miniature; and politicians and officials engage with hierarchies, continuity and change. This book also proposes how to study parliaments through an anthropological lens while in conversation with other disciplines. The dive into ethnographies from across Europe, the US, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa demolishes hackneyed geo-political categories and culminates in a new comparative theory about the contradictions in everyday political work. This important book will be of interest to anyone studying parliaments but especially those in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; politics, legal and development studies; and international relations"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Crewe, Emma, 1962- Anthropology of parliaments. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9781350089600
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