The Anthropology of the State by Aradhana Sharma, Akhil Gupta - 9781405114677

The Anthropology of the StateA Reader\nAuthor(s): Aradhana Sharma, Akhil Gupta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405114677, 978-1405114677\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nFocuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the state.\n\nPromotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.\n\nHelps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.