ISBN:
9781785332371
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
360 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Ethnography, Theory, Experiment 4
Keywords:
General Anthropology, Peace & Conflict Studies, Colonialism
Abstract:
Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so, this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved violent articulations with so-called 'traditional' forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of contexts that include colonial regimes of forced labor and pacification, liberation war struggles and civil war, the social engineering of the post-independence state, and the popular appropriation of sovereign violence in riots and lynchings.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations, Figures, and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Anonymity and Fieldwork -- A Note on Language -- Glossary -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Key Historical and Contemporary Persons -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Violence. War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique -- Chapter 2. Territory. Spatio-Historical Approaches to State Formation -- Chapter 3. Spirit. Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium -- Chapter 4. Body. Illness, Memory, and the Dynamics of Healing -- Chapter 5. Sovereignty. The Mozambican President and the Ordering of Sorcery -- Chapter 6. Economy. Substance, Production, and Accumulation -- Chapter 7. Law. Political Authority and Multiple Sovereignties -- Conclusion: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power -- Bibliography -- Index --
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