Bjorn Enge Bertelsen

Violent Becomings

State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781785332937
• ISBN-10: 1785332937
• Artikelnr.: 44892532

Autorenporträt

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen and has undertaken anthropological research in Mozambique since 1998.

Inhaltsangabe

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