Epilogue: Anthropological conversations with Karl Wittfogel’s ghost
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ArticlePublication details: Sage, 2019.Description: Vol 37, Issue 7, 2019 (1252-1257 p.)Subject(s): Online resources:
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Environment and planning CSummary: This epilogue provides a ‘last word’ to this rich collection of papers engaging in lively dialogue with Wittfogel’s ghost. It suggests that although his writing has been criticised as deterministic and generalising, with hindsight, Wittfogel is best appreciated as a scholar thinking within a particular historical and intellectual context. Part of the abiding appeal of his perspective comes from the clear and strong lines it draws connecting water, infrastructure and power.
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This epilogue provides a ‘last word’ to this rich collection of papers engaging in lively dialogue with Wittfogel’s ghost. It suggests that although his writing has been criticised as deterministic and generalising, with hindsight, Wittfogel is best appreciated as a scholar thinking within a particular historical and intellectual context. Part of the abiding appeal of his perspective comes from the clear and strong lines it draws connecting water, infrastructure and power.
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