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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.2
• Soggetto topico: Political anthropology; State, The; Nation-state; Sovereignty; World politics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SharmaAradhana GuptaAkhil <1959->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The anthropology of the state
• ISBN: 9786611214562; 1-281-21456-6; 1-4051-5535-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451294703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell readers in anthropology ; ; 9.