This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of the state.
Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the state.
Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.
Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world. The Anthropology of the State: A Reader
Aradhana Sharma ↠ 4 characters
It isn’t the book´s fault. I don’t know what I was thinking but I definitely didn’t expect it to be a sociological monograph. I gave it a try but… Reading Weber and Foucault brought me back to my first years on the university. It wasn’t a bad feeling. It just reminded me how different sociology can be and why I didn’t like it. The Anthropology of the State: A Reader