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Anthropology in the Margins of the State

By Deborah Poole , Veena Das

Book information

Publisher
James Currey, School of American Research Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9781930618404, 9781930618411, 9780852559475, 9780852559482, 9780195668933, 1930618409, 1930618417, 085255947X, 0852559488, 0195668936
Google Books ID
uceBAAAAMAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1633095 bytes)
Pages
ix, 330 p. :\346
Time added
2024-12-16 06:24:26

Description

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Drawing on fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Peru, Guatemala, India, Chad, Colombia, and South Africa, the contributors examine official documentary practices and their forms and falsifications; the problems that highly mobile mercenaries, currency, goods, arms, and diamonds pose to the state; emerging non-state regulatory authorities; and the role language plays as cultures struggle to articulate their situation.

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