States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state /

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Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- (Editor), Stepputat, Finn (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:Politics, history, and culture.
Subjects:
Political anthropology.
Anthropology > Fieldwork.
Social sciences and state.
Postcolonialism.
Post-communism.
Poststructuralism.
Anthropologie politique.
Anthropologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Sciences sociales > Politique gouvernementale.
Postcolonialisme.
Postcommunisme.
Poststructuralisme.
postcolonialism.
post-structuralism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY / World
Postkolonialismus
Aufsatzsammlung
Politische Anthropologie
Politieke antropologie.
Postkolonialisme.
Staat (politicologie)
Etnografie.
Entwicklungsländer
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Demonic societies": liberalism, biopolitics, and sovereignty / Mitchell Dean
  • Governing population: the integrated child development services program in India / Akhil Gupta
  • The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African State / Steffen Jensen
  • Imagining the state as a space: territoriality and the formation of the state in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe
  • The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a technique of nation-state formation / Lars Buur
  • Reconstructing national identity and renegotiating memory: the work of the TRC / Aletta J. Norval
  • Rethinking citizenship: reforming the law in postwar Guatemala / Rachel Sieder
  • Governance and state mythologies in Mumbai / Thomas Blom Hansen
  • Before history and prior to politics: time, space, and territory in the modern Peruvian nation-state / David Nugent
  • Urbanizing the countryside: armed conflicts, state formation, and the politics of place in contemporary Guatemala / Finn Stepputat
  • In the name of the state? Schools and teachers in an Andean province / Fiona Wilson
  • The captive state: corruption, intelligence agencies, and ethnicity in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik
  • Public secrets, conscious amnesia, and the celebration of autonomy for Ladakh / Martijn van Beek.

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