The Anthropology of the State: A Reader

The Anthropology of the State: A Reader
ISBN-10
1405155353
ISBN-13
9781405155359
Category
Social Science
Pages
424
Language
English
Published
2009-02-09
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Akhil Gupta, Aradhana Sharma

Description

This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical textsand cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific stateinstitutions, practices, and processes and outlines ananthropological framework for rethinking future study of “thestate”. Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, andrepresentations that constitute the “state”. Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to thesubject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as acultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing,transnational world.

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