State Formation

Foreword by Bruce Kapferer Preface PART I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. Introduction by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad 2. Sovereignty, the Spatial Politics of Security, and Gender: Looking North and South from the US-Mexico Border, by Ana M. Alonso PART II. A VIEW FROM COMMUNITIES 3. Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880, by Clifton Crais 4. State Formation through Development in Post-apartheid South Africa, by Knut G. Nustad 5. Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State in the Southwestern Dominican Republic, by Christian Krohn-Hansen 6. The Materiality of State Effects: An Ethnography of a Road in the Peruvian Andes, by Penelope Harvey 7. Contradictory Notions of the State: Returned Refugees in Guatemala, by Kristi Anne Stolen PART III: A VIEW FROM STATE BODIES 8. Counting on State Subjects: State Formation and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Mexico, by Helga Baitenmannpg 9. 'A Speech that the Entire Ministry may Stand for': On Generating State Voice, by Iver B. Neumann 10. 'Better Safe than Sorry': Legislating Assisted Conception in Norway, by Marit Melhuus 11. The State of the State in Europe, or, 'What is the European Union that Anthropologists Should be Mindful of it'?, by Cris Shore Contributors Index Ana M. Alonso is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona Helga Baitenmann is Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London Clifton Crais is Professor of History, Emory University Penelope Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen Christian Krohn-Hansen is Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Marit Melhuus is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Iver B. Neumann is Director of Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Knut G. Nustad is Senior Lecturer

Christian Krohn-Hansen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. Knut Gunnar Nustad is Associate Professor in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.

This book presents a novel approach to the state (seeing it both from above and below), the cases are geographically wide-ranging and the book would be relevant for a number of courses in political anthropology, development studies and human geography. -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen This is fascinating material, a kind of anthropology of state formation which supplements and broadens what social historians have been writing about states and state formation. -- Professor Richard A. Wilson, University of Connecticut