The Anthropology of Power
Subtitle: Empowerment and Disempowerment in Changing Structures (Asa Monographs, No 36)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 31, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415193894
First sentence: 'Empowerment', especially when divorced from consideration of what constitutes 'power', seems to be a sanitised buzz-word of the mid-1990s, yet as Wright (1994: 163) has noted, the word itself has been part of the discourse of debureaucratisation for some two or more decades.