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

Contributor(s): Krohn-Hansen, Christian, 1957- | Nustad, Knut G, 1968-Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublication details: London : Pluto Press, 2005Description: xii, 263 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 074532441X (pbk.); 0745324428 (hardback)Subject(s): Political anthropology | State, The | Politics and cultureDDC classification: 306.2 LOC classification: GN492 | .S83 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction / Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad -- 2. Sovereignty, the spatial politics of security, and gender : looking north and south from the US-Mexico border / Ana M. Alonso -- 3. Chiefs and bureaucrats in the making of empire : a drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 / Clifton Crais -- 4. State formation through development in post-apartheid South Africa / Knut G. Nustad -- 5. Negotiated dictatorship : the building of the Trujillo State in the southwestern Dominican Republic / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- 6. The materiality of state effects : an ethnography of a road in the Peruvian Andes / Penelope Harvey -- 7. Contradictory notions of the state : returned refugees in Guatemala / Kristi Anne Støen -- 8. Counting on state subjects : state formation and citizenship in twentieth-century Mexico / Helga Baitenmann -- 9. "A speech that the entire ministry may stand for" : on generating state voice / Iver B. Neumann -- 10. "Better safe than sorry" : legislating assisted conception in Norway / Marit Melhuus -- 11. 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.

1. Introduction / Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad -- 2. Sovereignty, the spatial politics of security, and gender : looking north and south from the US-Mexico border / Ana M. Alonso -- 3. Chiefs and bureaucrats in the making of empire : a drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 / Clifton Crais -- 4. State formation through development in post-apartheid South Africa / Knut G. Nustad -- 5. Negotiated dictatorship : the building of the Trujillo State in the southwestern Dominican Republic / Christian Krohn-Hansen -- 6. The materiality of state effects : an ethnography of a road in the Peruvian Andes / Penelope Harvey -- 7. Contradictory notions of the state : returned refugees in Guatemala / Kristi Anne Støen -- 8. Counting on state subjects : state formation and citizenship in twentieth-century Mexico / Helga Baitenmann -- 9. "A speech that the entire ministry may stand for" : on generating state voice / Iver B. Neumann -- 10. "Better safe than sorry" : legislating assisted conception in Norway / Marit Melhuus -- 11. 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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