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Confronting Capital Routledge Studies in Anthropology 1 Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe The New Strangers Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune 2 The Question of the Gift Essays across Disciplines Edited by Mark Osteen 3 Decolonising Indigenous Rights Edited by Adolfo de Oliveira 4 Traveling Spirits Migrants, Markets and Mobilities Edited by Gertrud Hüwelmeier and Kristine Krause 5 Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect Edited by Joy Hendry and Laara Fitznor 6 Confronting Capital Critique and Engagement in Anthropology Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem Confronting Capital Critique and Engagement in Anthropology Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem NEW YORK LONDON First published 2012 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2012 Taylor & Francis The right of Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Confronting capital : critique and engagement in anthropology / edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Routledge studies in anthropology ; 6) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Marxist anthropology. 2. Political anthropology. I. Barber, Pauline Gardiner II. Leach, Belinda, 1954– III. Lem, Winnie. GN345.15.C66 2012 306.2—dc23 2012002883 ISBN13: 978-0-415-89629-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-10632-7 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. This book is dedicated to the memory of Krystyna Sieciechowicz Contents Acknowledgements xi 1 Introduction: Confronting Anthropology—The Critical Enquiry of Capitalism 1 PAULINE GARDINER BARBER, BELINDA LEACH AND WINNIE LEM PART I Politics 2 Making Connections: The Politics of Intellectual Labor in Colombia 17 LESLEY GILL 3 Security Anthropology and Northern Morazán, El Salvador: Confronting the Present There and Elsewhere 36 LEIGH BINFORD 4 Eff ective Politics: Band Elections and Decision Making in a Northern Onario Anishnaabek Community 53 KRYSTYNA SIECIECHOWICZ 5 The Soviet Revenge: How the Unrecognized Soviet-Style Mechanisms of Contemporary Finance Capitalism Cause Social Crisis and Catastrophe in the West 76 DON KALB AND OANE VISSER viii Contents PART II Histories 6 To Die in the Silence of History: Tuberculosis Epidemics and Yup’ik Peoples of Southwestern Alaska 97 LINDA GREEN 7 Not the Same Old Stories: Labor Anthropology, Vulnerabilities, and Solidarity Struggles 113 BELINDA LEACH 8 Native Livelihoods and Capital Punishment in the Carolinas and Labrador 130 GERALD SIDER 9 “They Say We Aren’t From Around Here”: The Production of Culture Among a Displaced People 147 GASTÓN GORDILLO PART III Livelihoods 10 Global Connections and Disconnections: Space and Labor in Mumbai’s Slums 163 JUDITH WHITEHEAD 11 Ghostly Figures Outside the Domain of Political Economy: Class Analysis and the Invisiblized Livelihoods of an Andean Export Zone 187 CHRISTOPHER KRUPA 12 Humanitarian to Livelihood Approaches: A View from the Dadaab Refugee Camps in Kenya 208 WENONA GILES 13 Gender Mainstreaming and Market Fundamentalism in Rural Yucatán, Mexico 222 MARIE FRANCE LABRECQUE Contents ix 14 Alternatives to Expanded Accumulation and the Anthropological Imagination: Turning Necessity into a Challenge to Capitalism? 239 SUSANA NAROTZKY 15 Afterword: In Defense of Historical Realist Anthropology 253 GAVIN SMITH Contributors 259 Index 265
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