Anthropology of the State

von Gupta Akhil, Sharma

424 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: John Wiley & Sons
• ISBN: 9781405114677
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.01.2006
• Größe: 260 x 183 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons