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State formation : anthropological perspectives / edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad ; foreword by Bruce Kapferer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthropology, culture, and society.
- Anthropology, culture, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political anthropology.
- State, The.
- Politics and culture.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 263 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is the state and how can we best study it?.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad
- Sovereignty, the spatial politics of security, and gender : looking north and south from the US-Mexico border / Ana M. Alonso
- Chiefs and bureaucrats in the making of empire : a drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 / Clifton Crais
- State formation through development in post-apartheid South Africa / Knut G. Nustad
- Negotiated dictatorship : the building of the Trujillo State in the southwestern Dominican Republic / Christian Krohn-Hansen
- The materiality of state effects : an ethnography of a road in the Peruvian Andes / Penelope Harvey
- Contradictory notions of the state : returned refugees in Guatemala / Kristi Anne Stølen
- Counting on state subjects : state formation and citizenship in twentieth-century Mexico / Helga Baitenmann
- "A speech that the entire ministry may stand for" : on generating state voice / Iver B. Neumann
- "Better safe than sorry" : legislating assisted conception in Norway / Marit Melhuus
- The state of the state in Europe, or, "What is the European Union that anthropologists should be mindful of it"? / Cris Shore.
- Notes:
- Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611750916
- 9781783715350
- 1783715359
- 9781849642941
- 184964294X
- 9781281750914
- 1281750913
- 9781435662605
- 1435662601
- OCLC:
- 651796566
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