Das Veena <br/><br/>
Anthropology in the margins of the state 

 - New Delhi  Oxford University Press  2004 
 - 330p  vii 
<br/><br/>•	Contents<br/>•	1. State and its margins : comparative ethnographies / Veena Das and Deborah Poole;<br/>•	2. Between threat and guarantee : justice and community in the margins of the Peruvian state / Deborah Poole;<br/>•	3. Checkpoint : anthropology, identity, and the state / Pradeep Jeganathan;<br/>•	4. DE territorialized citizenship and the resonances of the Sierra Leonean state / Mariane C. Ferme;<br/>•	5. Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian! : margins, the state, and duplicity in postwar Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson;<br/>•	6. AIDS and witchcraft in post-apartheid South Africa / Adam Ashforth;<br/>•	7. Operability : surgery at the margin of the state / Lawrence Cohen;<br/>•	8. Productivity in the margins : the reconstitution of state power in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman;<br/>•	9. The signature of the state : the paradox of illegibility / Veena Das;<br/>•	10. Contesting displacement in Colombia : citizenship and state sovereignty at the margins / Victoria Sanford.;<br/>•	11. Where are the margins of the state? / Talal Asad.;<br/>•	Index.<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195668933 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>1. Political Anthropology -  State2. Marginality - Social
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.2  / DAS