State formation : anthropological perspectives / / edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad ; foreword by Bruce Kapferer.
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| Superior document: | Anthropology, culture, and society |
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 263 p. |
| Notes: | Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002. |
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Table of 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.