Postcolonialism

Cultural Anthropology essays on postcolonialism include the following:

Suicide, Risk, and Investment in the Heart of the African Miracle
Julie Livingston
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 652-680
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Comedians, Pastors, and the Miraculous Agency of Charisma in Ghana
Jesse Weaver Shipley
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3: 523-552
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Pastoral Power in the Postcolony: On the Biopolitics of the Criminal Animal in South India
Anand Pandian
Cultural Anthropology Feb 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 85-117.
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The City as Barracks: Freetown, Monrovia, and the Organization of Violence in Postcolonial African Cities
Danny Hoffman
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp 400-428.

Crossbreeding Institutions, Breeding Struggle: Women's Empowerment, Neoliberal Governmentality, and State (Re)Formation in India
Aradhana Sharma
Cultural Anthropology. Feb 2006, Vol. 21, No. 1: 60-95.

Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization
Ritty Lukose
Cultural Anthropology. Nov 2005, Vol. 20, No. 4: 506-533.

Engaging Colonial Nostalgia
William Cunningham Bissell
Cultural Anthropology. May 2005, Vol. 20, No. 2: 215-248.

Objects of Love and Decay: Colonial Photographs in a Postcolonial Archive
Liam Buckley
Cultural Anthropology May 2005, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp 249-270.

Conforming Disconformity: “Mestizage,” Hybridity, and the Aesthetics of Mexican Nationalism
Ana Maria Alonso
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp 459-490.

Originality in the Postcolony: Choreographing the Neoethnic Body of Philippine Ballet
Sally A. Ness
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1997, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp 64-108.

Embodied Trademarks: Mimesis and Alternity on American Commercial Frontiers
Rosemary J. Coombe
Cultural Anthropology May 1996, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp 202-224.

Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories
Fernando Coronil
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1996, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp 51-86.

To Revolt against the Revolution: War and Resistance in Peru’s Andes
Orin Starn
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1995, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp 547-580.

Photojournalism, Anthropology, and Ethnographic Authority
Michele D. Dominy
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1993, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp 317-337.

Threats to Difference in Colonial Fiji
John D. Kelly
Cultural Anthropology. Feb 1995, Vol. 10, No. 1: 64-84.

Panopticon in Poona: An Essay on Foucault and Colonialism
Martha Kaplan
Cultural Anthropology. Feb 1995, Vol. 10, No. 1: 85-98.