discourses and practices produced by institutional agents of development in their encounter with ‘local culture’ (see for example Ferguson 1994). Development anthropology is tied to global political economy and economic anthropology as it concerns the management and redistribution of both ideational and real resources (see for example Hart 1982). In this vein, Escobar (1995) famously argued that international development largely helped to reproduce the former colonial power structures. Many other themes have over the last two decades been opened up which, taken together, are making anthropology increasingly political: post-colonialism, post-communism, gender, multiculturalism, migration, not to forget the umbrella term of globalization. It thus makes sense to say that while anthropology was always to some extent about politics, this is even more evidently the case today. Notable political anthropologists Some notable political anthropologists include: Marc Abélès F. G. Bailey Georges Balandier Jeremy Boissevain John Borneman Robert L. Carneiro Pierre Clastres E. E. Evans-Pritchard Meyer Fortes Ted C. Lewellen Carolyn Nordstrom James C. Scott Audra Simpson Joan Vincent See also Political sociology Legal anthropology Notes References Journal of International Political Anthropology Abélès, Marc (1990) Anthropologie de l'État, Paris: Armand Colin. Abélès, Marc (1992) La vie quotidienne au Parlement européen, Paris: Hachette. Abélès, Marc (2010) "State" in Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (eds.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2nd. ed., London and New York: Routledge, pp. 666–670. Alvarez, Robert R. (1995) “The Mexican-US Border: The Making of an Anthropology of Borderlands”, Annual Review of Anthropology, 24: 447–70. Bailey, Frederick G. (1969) Strategems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics, New York: Schocken Books, Inc. Barth, Fredrik (1959) Political Leadership among the Swat Pathans, London: Athlone Press. Bellier, Irene (1995). “Moralité, langues et pouvoirs dans les institutions européennes”, Social Anthropology, 3 (3): 235–250. Boissevain, Jeremy and John Friedl (1975) Beyond the Community: Social Process in Europe, The Hague: University of Amsterdam. Bourdieu, Pierre. (1977) Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brachet, Julien and Scheele, Judith. (2019) The Value of Disorder : Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Donnan, Hastings and Thomas M. Wilson (eds.) (1994) Border Approaches: Anthropological Perspectives on Frontiers, Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Donnan, Hasting and Thomas M. Wilson (1999) Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State, Oxford: Berg. Donnan, Hasting and Thomas M. Wilson (eds.) (2003) “European States at Their Borderlands”, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology,