State Formation

Foreword by Bruce Kapferer Preface PART I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. Introduction by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad 2. Sovereignty, the Spatial Politics of Security, and Gender: Looking North and South from the US-Mexico Border, by Ana M. Alonso PART II. A VIEW FROM COMMUNITIES 3. Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880, by Clifton Crais 4. State Formation through Development in Post-apartheid South Africa, by Knut G. Nustad 5. Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State in the Southwestern Dominican Republic, by Christian Krohn-Hansen 6. The Materiality of State Effects: An Ethnography of a Road in the Peruvian Andes, by Penelope Harvey 7. Contradictory Notions of the State: Returned Refugees in Guatemala, by Kristi Anne Stolen PART III: A VIEW FROM STATE BODIES 8. Counting on State Subjects: State Formation and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Mexico, by Helga Baitenmannpg 9. 'A Speech that the Entire Ministry may Stand for': On Generating State Voice, by Iver B. Neumann 10. 'Better Safe than Sorry': Legislating Assisted Conception in Norway, by Marit Melhuus 11. The State of the State in Europe, or, 'What is the European Union that, Anthropologists Should be Mindful of it'?, by Cris Shore Contributors Index

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