03758nam 22007574a 450 99620009440331620080321091817.097866130621921-283-06219-40-8223-8127-310.1515/9780822381273(CKB)1000000000294642(EBL)1167638(SSID)ssj0000394788(PQKBManifestationID)11294744(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394788(PQKBWorkID)10387840(PQKB)10490260(OCoLC)191222395(MiAaPQ)EBC1167638191222395(OCoLC)1077298235(MdBmJHUP)muse80718(DE-B1597)554226(DE-B1597)9780822381273(OCoLC)1058438448(EXLCZ)99100000000029464220080125d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStates of imagination[electronic resource] ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state /edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn StepputatDurham [N.C.] Duke University Press20011 online resource (433 p.)Politics, history, and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-2801-1 0-8223-2798-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-413) and index."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.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.Politics, history, and culture.Political anthropologyAnthropologyFieldworkSocial sciences and statePostcolonialismPost-communismPoststructuralismElectronic books.Political anthropology.AnthropologyFieldwork.Social sciences and state.Postcolonialism.Post-communism.Poststructuralism.306.2Hansen Thomas Blom1958-276734Stepputat Finn922497NcDNcDBOOK996200094403316States of imagination2139121UNISA