Anthropology of the State - A Reader

Informationen zum Autor 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 the Making of Modern India (1998), and Caste and Outcast (ed. 2002). Klappentext The Anthropology of the State introduces some of the most exciting approaches to the study of the state in a transnational world. This volume is unique in that it stresses the interplay between theory, ethnography, history, and critique. It brings together classic and contemporary theoretical examinations of the state along with cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state practices, institutions, and ideas in diverse geographical locations and historical periods. The articles in this volume are presented for students and scholars in a range of disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, political economy, and postcolonial studies. Zusammenfassung * 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.

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• Authors: Gupta A, Gupta A., Sharma, A Sharma, Aradhana (Wesleyan University) Gupta Sharma, Aradhana Gupta Sharma
• Assisted by: Akhil Gupta (Editor), Akhil (University of California Gupta (Editor), Aradhana Sharma (Editor), Aradhana (Wesleyan University) Sharma (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2005
• EAN: 9781405114684
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-1468-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology; Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories