States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State

by Thomas Blom Hansen

Book Overview

The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the state looks like to those seeing it from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328011
• ISBN13: 9780822328018
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.6"