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Zusatztext 97994923 Informationen zum Autor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen and has undertaken anthropological research in Mozambique since 1998. Klappentext It is theoretically original in its insistence on radical reading of state formation as related to violence and irreducible to the formal state apparatus. It is a long-term study of transformations – building on fieldwork from 1998 onwards – which surpasses a number of other relevant studies from Mozambique (Obarrio, West, Kyed, for instance). It systematically construes contemporary processes and historical trajectories from the margins and is consistent in not adapting a view from the country’s centre, Maputo -- such a Maputo-view informing the majority of studies in and on Mozambique. Zusammenfassung Violent Becomings conceptualizes the Mozambican state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state! but as a continuously emergent and violently challenged mode of ordering. In doing so! this book addresses the question of why colonial and postcolonial state formation has involved violent articulations with so-called 'traditional' forms of sociality. The scope and dynamic nature of such violent becomings is explored through an array of contexts that include colonial regimes of forced labor and pacification! liberation war struggles and civil war! the social engineering of the post-independence state! and the popular appropriation of sovereign violence in riots and lynchings. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations, Figures, and Maps Acknowledgements Note on Anonymity and Fieldwork A Note on Language Glossary List of Abbreviations and Acronyms List of Key Historical and Contemporary Persons Introduction Chapter 1. Violence. War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique Chapter 2. Territory. Spatio-Historical Approaches to State Formation Chapter 3. Spirit. Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium Chapter 4. Body. Illness, Memory, and the Dynamics of Healing Chapter 5. Sovereignty. The Mozambican President and the Ordering of Sorcery Chapter 6. Economy. Substance, Production, and Accumulation Chapter 7. Law. Political Authority and Multiple Sovereignties Conclusion: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power Bibliography Index ...
Table des matières
List of Illustrations, Figures, and Maps
Acknowledgements
Note on Anonymity and Fieldwork
A Note on Language
Glossary
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
List of Key Historical and Contemporary Persons
Introduction Chapter 1. Violence. War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique
Chapter 2. Territory. Spatio-Historical Approaches to State Formation
Chapter 3. Spirit. Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium
Chapter 4. Body. Illness, Memory, and the Dynamics of Healing
Chapter 5. Sovereignty. The Mozambican President and the Ordering of Sorcery
Chapter 6. Economy. Substance, Production, and Accumulation
Chapter 7. Law. Political Authority and Multiple Sovereignties
Conclusion: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power
Bibliography
Index
