State formation : anthropological perspectives /: anthropological perspectives. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad ; foreword by Bruce Kapferer.
• Other Names: Krohn-Hansen, Christian, 1957-; Nustad, Knut G, 1968-
• Contents: Introduction / Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad -- Sovereignty, the spatial politics of security, and gender : looking north and south from the US-Mexico border / Ana M. Alonso -- Chiefs and bureaucrats in the making of empire : a drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 / Clifton Crais -- State formation through development in post-apartheid South Africa / Knut G. Nustad -- Negotiated dictatorship : the building of the Trujillo State in the southwestern Dominican Republic / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- The materiality of state effects : an ethnography of a road in the Peruvian Andes / Penelope Harvey -- Contradictory notions of the state : returned refugees in Guatemala / Kristi Anne Stølen -- Counting on state subjects : state formation and citizenship in twentieth-century Mexico / Helga Baitenmann -- "A speech that the entire ministry may stand for" : on generating state voice / Iver B. Neumann -- "Better safe than sorry" : legislating assisted conception in Norway / Marit Melhuus -- The state of the state in Europe, or, "What is the European Union that anthropologists should be mindful of it"? / Cris Shore.
• Publisher Details: London : Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages.)
• Subjects: 306.2; Political Science -- Constitutions; Political anthropology; State, The; Politics and culture; Political anthropology; Politics and culture; State, The; Anthropologie politique; État; Politique et culture; Entstehung; Politische Anthropologie; Staat; Entstehung; Politische Anthropologie; Staat; Südafrika; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783715350
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.