Violent Becomings : : State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique / / Bjørn Enge Bertelsen.
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.
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| Superior document: | Ethnography, Theory, Experiment Series ; v.4. |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Berghahn Books,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ethnography, theory, experiment.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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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.