State formation : anthropological perspectives

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State formation : anthropological perspectives

edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad ; foreword by Bruce Kapferer

(Anthropology, culture and society)

Pluto Press, 2005

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Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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 Stølen
  • 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

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