Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics

<ul> <li> Starts from the position that we need to ask <u>what kind of work academics/intellectuals should be doing</u>; and how this might affect the design of the research projects. This is not at all common in books of a similar kind.</li> <li> Vital theoretical issues are addressed at length and in a highly provocative manner in key chapters that frame the core ethnographic chapters which demonstrate the application of the theoretical issues addressed.</li> <li> Represents an argument for a particular approach to anthropology and to social enquiry more broadly that the author terms <u>historical realism</u>. He shows how such an approach is an extension of and an advance of approaches referred to as critique of political economy or simply political economy approaches.</li> <li> Makes a case for historical ethnography.</li></ul>