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The Anthropology of the State: A Reader
Edited Sharma
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Description for The Anthropology of the State: A Reader
Paperback. * Combines classic theoretical texts with cutting edge anthropological works. * Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state". * Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Editor(s): Sharma, Aradhana; Gupta, Akhil. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 424 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JHM; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 734.
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”.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405114684
SKU
V9781405114684
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99-50
About Edited Sharma
Aradhana Sharma is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Wesleyan University. Akhil Gupta is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. His previous publications include Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (ed. 1997), Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (ed. 1997), Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in ... Read more
Reviews for The Anthropology of the State: A Reader
"[This) volume's refreshing theoretical approach and range of empirical examples should make it a valuable teaching and reference book for all those concerned with the challenging questions posed by the state." Political Studies Review “This is a nuanced, original framework for thinking about the state as a highly variable phenomenon of emergent world orders. With its expert selection of ... Read more