State formation
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives
By: edited by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad.
Contributors: Krohn-Hansen, Christian, 1957-; Nustad, Knut G., 1968-
Series: Anthropology, culture, and society
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Ann Arbor, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Political anthropology; State, The; Politics and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Chiefly papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Oslo in Oct. 2002.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad; title: Sovereignty, the spatial politics of security, and gender : looking north and south from the US-Mexico border / Ana M. Alonso; title: Chiefs and bureaucrats in the making of empire : a drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 / Clifton Crais; title: State formation through development in post-apartheid South Africa / Knut G. Nustad; title: Negotiated dictatorship : the building of the Trujillo State in the southwestern Dominican Republic / Christian Krohn-Hansen; title: The materiality of state effects : an ethnography of a road in the Peruvian Andes / Penelope Harvey; title: Contradictory notions of the state : returned refugees in Guatemala / Kristi Anne Stolen; title: Counting on state subjects : state formation and citizenship in twentieth-century Mexico / Helga Baitenmann; title: "A speech that the entire ministry may stand for" : on generating state voice / Iver B. Neumann; title: "Better safe than sorry" : legislating assisted conception in Norway / Marit Melhuus; title: The state of the state in Europe, or, "What is the European Union that anthropologists should be mindful of it"? / Cris Shore.