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Title:

State formation : anthropological perspectives / edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad ; foreword by Bruce Kapferer.

Publisher:

Pluto Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xii, 263 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Political anthropology--Congresses.
State, The--Congresses--Congresses.
Politics and culture--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Krohn-Hansen, Christian, 1957-
Nustad, Knut G., 1968-

Notes:

Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 St©ılen -- 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.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

ISBN:

9780745324418
074532441X (pbk.)
9780745324425
0745324428 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58563583

LCCN:

2005006706

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)