1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996200094403316

Titolo

States of imagination [[electronic resource] ] : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001

ISBN

9786613062192

1-283-06219-4

0-8223-8127-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Politics, history, and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

HansenThomas Blom <1958->

StepputatFinn

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Political anthropology

Anthropology - Fieldwork

Social sciences and state

Postcolonialism

Post-communism

Poststructuralism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-413) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Demonic societies": liberalism, biopolitics, and sovereignty / Mitchell Dean -- Governing population: the integrated child development services program in India / Akhil Gupta -- The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African State / Steffen Jensen -- Imagining the state as a space: territoriality and the formation of the state in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a technique of nation-state formation / Lars Buur -- Reconstructing national identity and renegotiating memory: the work of the TRC / Aletta J. Norval -- Rethinking citizenship: reforming the law in postwar Guatemala / Rachel Sieder -- Governance and state mythologies in Mumbai / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Before history and prior to politics: time, space, and territory in the



modern Peruvian nation-state / David Nugent -- Urbanizing the countryside: armed conflicts, state formation, and the politics of place in contemporary Guatemala / Finn Stepputat -- In the name of the state? Schools and teachers in an Andean province / Fiona Wilson -- The captive state: corruption, intelligence agencies, and ethnicity in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik -- Public secrets, conscious amnesia, and the celebration of autonomy for Ladakh / Martijn van Beek.

Sommario/riassunto

Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004064360403321

Autore

Centini, Massimo

Titolo

Le schiave di Diana : stregoneria e sciamanismo tra superstizione e demonizzazione / Massimo Centini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Genova, : ECIG, 1994

ISBN

88-7545-588-0

Descrizione fisica

327 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Nuova atlantide

Disciplina

133.43094

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

199.52 CENM 01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia