The Anthropology of the State

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”. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the “state”.</li> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.</li> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.</li> </ul>