Violent Becomings : State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

Violent Becomings State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: University of Bergen funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books 2016.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Ethnography, theory, experiment.
Materias:
Nation-building.
Mozambique > Social conditions.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations, Figures, and Maps
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Anonymity and Fieldwork A
  • Note on Language
  • Glossary
  • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • List of Key Historical and Contemporary Persons
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Violence. War, State, and Anthropology in Mozambique
  • Chapter 2. Territory. Spatio-Historical Approaches to State Formation
  • Chapter 3. Spirit. Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium
  • Chapter 4. Body. Illness, Memory, and the Dynamics of Healing
  • Chapter 5. Sovereignty. The Mozambican President and the Ordering of Sorcery
  • Chapter 6. Economy. Substance, Production, and Accumulation
  • Chapter 7. Law. Political Authority and Multiple Sovereignties
  • Conclusion: Uncapturability, Dynamics, and Power
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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