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UNINA9910171018703321 |
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Titolo |
States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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9786613062192 |
1-283-06219-4 |
0-8223-8127-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Collana |
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Politics, history, and culture |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HansenThomas Blom <1958-> |
StepputatFinn |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political anthropology |
Anthropology - Fieldwork |
Social sciences and state |
Postcolonialism |
Post-communism |
Poststructuralism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-413) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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