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The Anthropology of the State: A Reader
Sharma
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Description for The Anthropology of the State: A Reader
Hardcover. * 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: 260 x 188 x 27. Weight in Grams: 944.
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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Series
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405114677
SKU
V9781405114677
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99-50
About 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
"[Sharma and Gupta] have compiled a timely, useful and dense collection of classical and more recent texts that cover the field, as I know it, pretty well." (Critique of Anthropology, 2009) "The volume presents an innovative and greatly needed introduction to an interdisciplinary research programme between anthropology and political science." (Discourse & Society, February 2008) "[This) volume's ... Read more