Anthropology in the margins of the state

By:

Das Veena

Contributor(s):

Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2004Description: 330p viiISBN:

9780195668933

Subject(s):

1. Political Anthropology - State2. Marginality - Social

DDC classification:

306.2 DAS

Contents:

• Contents • 1. State and its margins : comparative ethnographies / Veena Das and Deborah Poole; • 2. Between threat and guarantee : justice and community in the margins of the Peruvian state / Deborah Poole; • 3. Checkpoint : anthropology, identity, and the state / Pradeep Jeganathan; • 4. DE territorialized citizenship and the resonances of the Sierra Leonean state / Mariane C. Ferme; • 5. Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian! : margins, the state, and duplicity in postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson; • 6. AIDS and witchcraft in post-apartheid South Africa / Adam Ashforth; • 7. Operability : surgery at the margin of the state / Lawrence Cohen; • 8. Productivity in the margins : the reconstitution of state power in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman; • 9. The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility / Veena Das; • 10. Contesting displacement in Colombia : citizenship and state sovereignty at the margins / Victoria Sanford.; • 11. Where are the margins of the state? / Talal Asad.; • Index.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	306.2 DAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	18.05.2024	21025

• Contents
• 1. State and its margins : comparative ethnographies / Veena Das and Deborah Poole;
• 2. Between threat and guarantee : justice and community in the margins of the Peruvian state / Deborah Poole;
• 3. Checkpoint : anthropology, identity, and the state / Pradeep Jeganathan;
• 4. DE territorialized citizenship and the resonances of the Sierra Leonean state / Mariane C. Ferme;
• 5. Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian! : margins, the state, and duplicity in postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson;
• 6. AIDS and witchcraft in post-apartheid South Africa / Adam Ashforth;
• 7. Operability : surgery at the margin of the state / Lawrence Cohen;
• 8. Productivity in the margins : the reconstitution of state power in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman;
• 9. The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility / Veena Das;
• 10. Contesting displacement in Colombia : citizenship and state sovereignty at the margins / Victoria Sanford.;
• 11. Where are the margins of the state? / Talal Asad.;
• Index.

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