Violent Becomings : : State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique / / Bjørn Enge Bertelsen.

• Superior document: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment Series ; v.4.
• Funder: University of Bergen
• VerfasserIn: Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge,
• Author: University of Bergen
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Berghahn Books,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Ethnography, theory, experiment.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.

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.