State formation : anthropological perspectives /

Other Authors: Krohn-Hansen, Christian,, Nustad, Knut G.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2005.
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245 |a State formation :  |b anthropological perspectives /  |c edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad ; foreword by Bruce Kapferer. 
260 |a London :  |b Pluto Press,  |c 2005. 
300 |a xii, 263 p. ;  |c 22 cm. 
500 |a Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 |a 1. Introduction / Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad -- 2. Sovereignty, the spatial politics of security, and gender : looking north and south from the US-Mexico border / Ana M. Alonso -- 3. Chiefs and bureaucrats in the making of empire : a drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 / Clifton Crais -- 4. State formation through development in post-apartheid South Africa / Knut G. Nustad -- 5. Negotiated dictatorship : the building of the Trujillo State in the southwestern Dominican Republic / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- 6. The materiality of state effects : an ethnography of a road in the Peruvian Andes / Penelope Harvey -- 7. Contradictory notions of the state : returned refugees in Guatemala / Kristi Anne Støen -- 8. Counting on state subjects : state formation and citizenship in twentieth-century Mexico / Helga Baitenmann -- 9. "A speech that the entire ministry may stand for" : on generating state voice / Iver B. Neumann -- 10. "Better safe than sorry" : legislating assisted conception in Norway / Marit Melhuus -- 11. The state of the state in Europe, or, "What is the European Union that anthropologists should be mindful of it"? / Cris Shore. 
650 |a Political anthropology 
650 |a State, The 
650 |a Politics and culture 
700 1 |a Krohn-Hansen, Christian, 
700 1 |a Nustad, Knut G., 
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