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The Anthropology of the State: A Reader

Aradhana Sharma (Editor), Akhil Gupta (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1467-7
Hardcover
424 pages
January 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • 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.

  • Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.