Anthropology in the margins of the state
(School of American Research advanced seminar series)
Note:
Introduction: State & its margins: comparative ethnographies by Veena Das & Deborah Poole - Between threat & guarantee: justice & community on the margins of the Peruvian state by Deborah Poole - Checkpoint: anthropology, identity & the state by Pradeep Jeganathan - State boundaries & diasporic selves in postcolonial Sierra Leone by Mariane Ferme - Anthropologist discovers legendary two-faced Indian! Margins, the state & duplicity in post-war Guatemala by Diane M. Nelson - Aids & witchcraft in post-apartheid South Africa by Adam Ashforth - Operability: surgery at the margin of the state by Lawrence Cohen - Productivity in the margins: the reconstitution of state power in the Chad Basin by Janet Roitman - The signature of the state: the paradox of illegibility by Veena Das - Contesting displacement in Colombia: citizenship & state sovereignty at the margins by Victoria Sanford - Where are the margins of the state? by Talal Asad.