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State formation : anthropological perspectives / edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad.

Contributor(s): Krohn-Hansen, Christian, 1957- | Nustad, Knut G, 1968-
Language: English Publisher: London : Pluto Press, 2005.Description: xii, 263 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0745324428; 074532441X (pbk)
Contents:
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
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Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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