Brian Keith Axel: 2 books
From the Margins
Historical Anthropology and Its Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2002
Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and...
The Nation's Tortured Body
Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence...