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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812735703321

Titolo

The anthropology of the state : a reader / / edited by Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

9786611214562

1-281-21456-6

1-4051-5535-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Collana

Blackwell readers in anthropology ; ; 9

Classificazione

311.13

306.2

Altri autori (Persone)

SharmaAradhana

GuptaAkhil <1959->

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Political anthropology

State, The

Nation-state

Sovereignty

World politics

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Anthropology of the State; Contents; Acknowledgments; Organization of the Book; Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization; Part I Theoretical Genealogies; Part II Ethnographic Mappings; Section I Bureaucracy and Governmentality; Section II Planning and Development; Section III Violence, Law, and Citizenship; Section IV Popular Culture

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of "the state". Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state".Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.