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 Stølen
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
Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Oslo. His research interests include the anthropology
of politics and economic anthropology. He is the co-editor of State
Formation (Pluto, 2005).
Knut Gunnar Nustad is Associate Professor in the Department of
International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian
University of Life Sciences. He is the co-editor of State Formation
(Pluto, 2005).
'A novel approach to the state, seeing it both from above and
below'
*Thomas Hylland Eriksen*
'Fascinating material, a kind of anthropology of state formation
which supplements and broadens what social historians have been
writing about states and state formation'
*Professor Richard A. Wilson, University of Connecticut*
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