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State formation : anthropological perspectives /
What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state. The contributors argue that the state is not a fixed and definite object. Our perceptions of it are constantly changing, and differ from person to person. What is your idea of the stat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.