Culture and politics - Visweswaran

"Clearly, in the Third World, there is simply too much culture."
Now that's nice. Visweswaran in Un/common Cultures, discussing Geertz and symbolic anthropology trying to make sense of the "new states", "After the Revolution" (Geertz essay, possibly early 1970s).

She seems to engage with symbolic anthropology, and its turn to symbol and language, as ingredient in a bloc épistémologique that yokes a view of "culture and politics" to be picked open, for its tie with a certain strain, or phase, of disciplinary culturalism, and postcolonial ideological assumptions.
Excellent and incisive, illuminating - there will be interaction possible from this mobilizing.