Encrypted State - Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes

Informationen zum Autor David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. His previous books include Locating Capital in Time and Space (SUP, 2002) and Modernity at the Edge of Empire (SUP, 1997). Klappentext What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional? This resource engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability. The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Routine and the Remarkable in State Formation 1. Sacropolitics 2. The Descent into Madness 3. The Consolidation of Casta Rule 4. Being (and Seeing) Like a State 5. Divided Elite and Disordered State 6. The Sacropolitics of Military Conscription 7. The Sacropolitics of Labor Conscription 8. Glimpses of Danger and Subversion Conclusion: Behind the Mask of the State

Product details

• Authors: David Nugent
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781503609037
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-0903-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropologie, Peru, Anden, Politische Strukturen und Prozesse