ISBN:
1-930618-40-9
,
978-1-930618-40-4
,
1-930618-41-7
,
978-1-930618-41-1
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 330 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition, second printing
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [62]
Keywords:
Staat Politik
;
Minorität
;
Anthropologie, politische
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Sozialwissenschaft
Abstract:
The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dramatic: Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Rather than a geographic border, the term "margin" describes areas far from the centers of state sovereignty in which states are unable to ensure implementation of their programs and policies. Understanding how people perceive and experience the agency of the state; who is of, and not of, the state; and how practices at the margins shape the state itself are central themes.Drawing on fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Peru, Guatemala, India, Chad, Colombia, and South Africa, the contributors examine official documentary practices and their forms and falsifications; the problems that highly mobile mercenaries, currency, goods, arms, and diamonds pose to the state; emerging non-state regulatory authorities; and the role language plays as cultures struggle to articulate their situation. These case studies provide wide-ranging analyses of the relationship between states and peoples on the edges of state power`s effective reign. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- State and its margins : comparative ethnographies / Veena Das and Deborah Poole; Between threat and guarantee : justice and community in the margins of the Peruvian state / Deborah Poole; Checkpoint : anthology, identity, and the state / Pradeep Jaganathan; Deterritorialized citizenship and the resonances of the Sierra Leonean state / Mariane C. Ferme; Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian! : margins, the state, and duplicity in postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson; AIDS and witchcraft in post-apartheid South Africa / Adam Ashforth; Operability : surgery at the margin of the state / Lawrence Cohen; Productivity in the margins : the reconstitution of state power in the Chad basin / Janet Roitman; The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility / Veena Das; Contesting displacement in Colombia : citizenship and state sovereignty at the margins / Victoria Sanford; Where are the margins of the state? / Talal Asad -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 289-320"School of American Research advanced seminar Anthropology in the Margins of the State, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 22-26, 2001" (letzte Seite)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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