We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at www.berghahnjournals.com/focaal.

This issue’s theme section—titled “Capitalism and global anthropology: Marxism resurgent,” guest edited by Patrick Neveling and Luisa Steur, and  coming out during the two hundredth anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth—discusses the distinctiveness of Marxian anthropology and what it has to offer to our efforts at understanding, and confronting, the complexities of the social contradictions constituted by—and constitutive of—twenty-first century capitalism. It points out common denominators of Marxian anthropology going back to Marx’s insights, but also offers a cursory social history of the diverse lineages of inquiry within Marxian anthropology, shaped by the relations and inequalities of the context in which they emerged. As always, editors’ introduction is freely available to all readers.

Focaal 82 also includes a regular articles section, which features articles on the methodological implications of “studying up” in Pakistan and on neoliberal restructuring, racial politics, and resistance in post-Katrina New Orleans. A free forum article on reclaiming Meillassoux for the age of financialization rounds out the issue.

Volume 2018, Issue 82
Capitalism and global anthropology: Marxism resurgent

Guest Editors: Patrick Neveling and Luisa Steur

THEME SECTION

Introduction: Marxian anthropology resurgent
Patrick Neveling and Luisa Steur

Marxist morphologies: A materialist critique of brute materialities, flat infrastructures, fuzzy property, and complexified cities
Michał Murawski

Urban tourism via dispossession of oeuvres: Labor as a common denominator
Marc Morell

Gramsci in and beyond resistances: The search for an autonomous political initiative among a subaltern group in the Beninese savanna
Riccardo Ciavolella

The anthropology of human-environment relations: Materialism with and without Marxism
Penny McCall Howard

ARTICLES

Elite ethnography in an insecure place: The methodological implications of “studying up” in Pakistan
Rosita Armytage

Contending with school reform: Neoliberal restructuring, racial politics, and resistance in post-Katrina New Orleans
Mathilde Lind Gustavussen

FORUM

Reclaiming Meillassoux for the age of financialization
Hadas Weiss

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