Anthropology in the margins of the state /
The form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. This innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Fe, N.M. : Oxford [England] :
School of American Research Press ; James Currey,
2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | School of American Research advanced seminar series.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- State and its margins : comparative ethnographies
- Between threat and guarantee : justice and community in the margins of the Peruvian state
- Checkpoint : anthropology, identity, and the state
- Deterritorialized citizenship and the resonances of the Sierra Leonean state
- Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian! : margins, the state, and duplicity in postwar Guatemala
- AIDS and witchcraft in post-apartheid South Africa
- Operability : surgery at the margin of the state
- Productivity in the margins : the reconstitution of state power in the Chad Basin
- The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility
- Contesting displacement in Colombia : citizenship and state sovereignty at the margins
- Where are the margins of the state?