ISBN:
9781783715350
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Krohn-Hansen, Christian State Formation : Anthropological Perspectives
DDC:
306.2
Abstract:
What is the state and how can we best study it?
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I Theoretical Approaches -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sovereignty, the Spatial Politics of Security, and Gender: Looking North and South from the US-Mexico Border -- Part II A View From Communities -- 3. Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 -- 4. State Formation through Development in Post-apartheid South Africa -- 5. Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State in the Southwestern Dominican Republic -- 6. The Materiality of State-Effects: An Ethnography of a Road in the Peruvian Andes -- 7. Contradictory Notions of the State: Returned Refugees in Guatemala -- Part III A View From State Bodies -- 8. Counting on State Subjects: State Formation and Citizenship in Twentieth-century Mexico -- 9. 'A Speech that the Entire Ministry May Stand For': On Generating State Voice -- 10. 'Better Safe than Sorry': Legislating Assisted Conception in Norway -- 11. The State of the State in Europe, or, 'What is the European Union that Anthropologists Should be Mindful of It?' -- Contributors -- Index
