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Anthropology in the margins of the state/ edited by Veena Das and Deborah Poole

Contributor(s): Das, Veena, ed | Poole, Deborah, edMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: (School of American Research advanced seminar series)Publication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004Description: ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781930618404Subject(s): Political anthropology | Marginality, Social--Political aspectsDDC classification: 301

Contents:

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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	301 DAS/A (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	22/10/2021	P03177

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

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