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The “State Idea” in Theory and Practice.
- Source :
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Reviews in Anthropology . Jul-Sep2012, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p154-172. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Recent anthropology of the state is influenced by sociology's cultural turn—taking up “the state idea” as situated meaning. The works reviewed here pursue the state's idea of itself—in two cases through state projects of extreme social and cultural engineering, in two as a comparative problem. Notwithstanding differences of purpose and approach, the authors evince tacit points of convergence around the state as a form of modernism, as a function of elite interests, and as a localized process of depoliticization, associating dissent with cultural authenticity. The essay relates these points to western state nationalism and current ethnographies of political subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00938157
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Reviews in Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 79987756
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00938157.2012.703113