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Title The anthropology of the state : a reader / edited by Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta.

Imprint Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.2 An86 2006    ---  Available
Description x, 410 p. ; 26 cm.
Series Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 9
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Bureaucracy / Max Weber -- State and civil society / Antonio Gramsci -- Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation) / Louis Althusser -- Notes on the difficulty of studying the state / Philip Abrabs -- Governmentality / Michel Foucault -- Governing 'advanced' liberal democracies / Nikolas Rose -- Society, economy, and the state effect / Timothy Mitchell -- Finding the man in the state / Wendy Brown -- Blurred boundaries : the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state / Akhil Gupta -- Cities, people, and language / James C. Scott -- Anti-politics machine / James Ferguson -- Making war at home in the United States : militarization and the current Crisis / Catherine Lutz -- Cultural logics of belonging and movement : transnationalism, naturalization, and US immigration politics / Susan Bibler Coutin -- Public/private mirage : mapping homes and undomesticating violence work in the South Asian Immigrant community / Anannya Bhattacharjee -- Popular culture and the state / Stuart Hall -- Banality of power and the aesthetics of vulgarity in the postcolony / Achille Mbembe.
Subject Political anthropology.
State, The.
Nation-state.
Sovereignty.
World politics.
Added Author Sharma, Aradhana.
Gupta, Akhil, 1959-
ISBN 1405114681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405114673 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781405114677
9781405114684
Standard No. IG# 1405114673
IG# 1405114681
YDXCP 100407331
YDXCP 2209633
NZ1 9446296

 
    
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