Format:
Online-Ressource (viii, 423 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0822381273
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0822328011
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0822327988
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9780822381273
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9780822328018
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9780822327981
Series Statement:
Politics, history, and culture
Content:
Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-413) and index
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CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: States of Imagination; I STATE AND GOVERNANCE; ''Demonic Societies'': Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty; Governing Population: The Integrated Child DevelopmentServices Program in India; The Battlefield and the Prize: ANC's Bid to Reform theSouth African State; Imagining the State as a Space: Territoriality and theFormation of the State in Ecuador; II STATE AND JUSTICE; The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission:A Technique of Nation-State Formation; Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory:The Work of the TRC
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Rethinking Citizenship: Reforming the Law in Postwar GuatemalaGovernance and State Mythologies in Mumbai; III STATE AND COMMUNITY; Before History and Prior to Politics: Time, Space, andTerritory in the Modern Peruvian Nation-State; Urbanizing the Countryside: Armed Conflict, State Formation,and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Guatemala; In the Name of the State? Schools and Teachers in an Andean Province; The Captive State: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, andEthnicity in Pakistan; Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration ofAutonomy for Ladakh; Bibliography
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About the ContributorsIndex
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822328018
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe States of Imagination : Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Language:
English
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