The Anthropology of the State : A Reader.

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.

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