| Description |
xii, 263 p. |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture, and society |
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Note |
Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002. |
| Bibliography |
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 Stlen -- 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Political anthropology.
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State, The.
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Politics and culture.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Krohn-Hansen, Christian, 1957-
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Nustad, Knut G., 1968-
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Kapferer, Bruce.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
074532441X (pbk.) |
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0745324428 (hardback) |
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9780745324425 |
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9781849642941 (electronic bk.) |
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