The Anthropology of the State : A Reader Hardback
Edited by Aradhana (Wesleyan University) Sharma, Akhil (University of California, Los Angeles, CA) Gupta
Part of the Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology series
Hardback
Description
This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of "the state". Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state". Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:06/12/2005
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- ISBN:9781405114677
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:424 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:06/12/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405114677