摘要：For anthropologists, neoliberalism is one of those terms that goes without saying. Like other keywords—modernity, capitalism, development, race—we seem to know what it means and what its politics entails. But as a catch-all descriptor of the contemporary condition, this promiscuous signifier loses much of its force as a diagnostic of what is distinctive about the current moment. And yet neoliberalism continues to do important work in our discipline as evidenced by the flood of submissions we have received over the last four years under its sign, and its use may conceal more progressive political valences.
