Sharma, Aradhana. <br/><br/>
The Anthropology of the State :  A Reader. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (424 pages) 
 - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
 - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
<br/><br/>The Anthropology of the State -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Organization of the Book -- Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization -- Part I Theoretical Genealogies -- Introduction -- 1 Bureaucracy -- 2 State and Civil Society -- 3 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses 86 (Notes towards an Investigation) -- 4 Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State -- 5 Governmentality -- 6 Governing ''Advanced'' Liberal Democracies -- Part II Ethnographic Mappings -- Section I Bureaucracy and Governmentality -- 7 Society, Economy, and the State Effect -- 8 Finding the Man in the State -- 9 Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, 211 the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State -- Section II Planning and Development -- 10 Cities, People, and Language -- 11 The Anti-Politics Machine -- Section III Violence, Law, and Citizenship -- 12 Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization 291 and the Current Crisis -- 13 Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and US Immigration Politics -- 14 The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and 337 Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community -- Section IV Popular Culture -- 15 Popular Culture and the State -- 16 The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405155359 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nation-state.<br/>Political anthropology.<br/>Sovereignty.<br/>State, The.<br/>World politics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN492 .A54 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.2