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Anthropology in the Margins of the State - Das, Veena (Editor), and Poole, Deborah (Editor)
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The form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. This innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in threeregions where state reform and violence have been particularly dramatic: Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Understanding how people perceive and experience the agency of the state; who is of, and not of, the state; and how practices at the margins shape the state itself ...

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Anthropology in the Margins of the State 2004, School for Advanced Research Press

ISBN-13: 9781930618411

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Anthropology in the Margins of the State 2004, School for Advanced Research Press

ISBN-13: 9781930618404

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