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Laughing at Leviathan
Danilyn Rutherford
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Description for Laughing at Leviathan
Paperback. For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. This title shows how a complex interplay of various observers is key to the establishment and understanding of the sovereign nation-state. Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty itself - how it is fueled, formed, and even thwarted by pivotal but often overlooked players: those that make up an audience. Whether these players are citizens, missionaries, competing governmental powers, nongovernmental organizations, or the international community at large, Rutherford shows how a complex interplay of various observers is key to the establishment ... Read more
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty itself - how it is fueled, formed, and even thwarted by pivotal but often overlooked players: those that make up an audience. Whether these players are citizens, missionaries, competing governmental powers, nongovernmental organizations, or the international community at large, Rutherford shows how a complex interplay of various observers is key to the establishment ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226731988
SKU
V9780226731988
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About Danilyn Rutherford
Danilyn Rutherford is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier.
Reviews for Laughing at Leviathan
"At the core of Laughing at Leviathan is a heart-wrenching story: a subtle tracing of the historical disjunctions and disseminations of empire and nationalism that have not led to a new nation in Melanesia. It is a kind of prehistory to a sovereignty that never comes. In writing the prehistory of a form of sovereignty that has neither failed nor ... Read more