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SAR Press
- Anthropology in the Margins: Comparative Ethnographies
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: SAR Press
- Series: Advanced Seminar
summary
Drawing on fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Peru, Guatemala, India, Chad, Colombia, and South Africa, the contributors examine official documentary practices and their forms and falsifications; the problems that highly mobile mercenaries, currency, goods, arms, and diamonds pose to the state; emerging non-state regulatory authorities; and the role language plays as cultures struggle to articulate their situation. These case studies provide wide-ranging analyses of the relationship between states and peoples on the edges of state power's effective reign.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 6
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-13
- 11. Where Are the Margins of the State?
- pp. 279-288
- References
- pp. 289-320
- Other Works in the Series
- pp. 342-344
- Participants
- pp. 345-346
Additional Information
ISBN
9781934691656
Related ISBN(s)
9781930618411
MARC Record
OCLC
607166756
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No