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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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ASA Monographs |
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A.S.A. monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Conference note -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction -- A thrice-told crisis: rethinking the anthropology of the state -- Anthropology of the state -- The volume -- Notes -- Part I Ethnographies of infrastructure -- 1 Contingent statecraft: Infrastructures, political creativity, and experimentation -- Road construction -- Decentralization and the modern Peruvian state -- Fieldwork in the Vilcanota Valley -- The promise of a sanitation system -- Conclusions -- Notes |
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4 State of the grain: grain of the state: The political and moral economy of rice in Indonesia -- States and grains -- The contemporary rice-state in Indonesia -- Two approaches -- The Department of Agriculture -- The extension system -- Notes -- References -- Part II Dialectics of security, surveillance, and struggle -- 5 Indigenous social policy, settler colonial dependencies, and toxic lingerings: Living through mining and militarism in the Anthropocene -- Indigenous policy pre-eminence -- Why it is so hard -- Everyday militarization -- Where to turn, what to learn? -- Notes -- References |
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6 Awkward biculturalism: Embodying ambiguity in New Zealand Army haka -- Haka practice in the Solomon Islands -- Doing without thinking -- Haka in the context of New Zealand state biculturalism -- Biculturalism in Ngati Tumatauenga -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Fear of a free lunch: Markets, publics, and the would-be gift -- Introduction: the would-be gift -- Eating in public(s) -- Gifts and commons -- That's not my constituency: food not bombs and the reinvested core -- Open harvest: food, forests, and the city -- People don't like messy: vectors of comparison -- Conclusion |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- 2 Materialising the state: The meaning of water infrastructure -- (Infra)structuring the state -- (Infra)structuring relations -- A non-anthropocentric state? -- Restructuring relations -- References -- 3 Driving into the nation-state: Driving, roads, and selfhood in a post-socialist milieu -- Introduction -- Driving, roads, and selfhood -- Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina - driving through national landscapes on Yugoslav roads -- Driving and post-socialist transition -- From driving against to driving with the nation-state -- Afterword -- Notes -- References |
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Bibliography -- Part III Sensory states, and their contingent citizenries -- 8 Intimate tonguing: The governance of the tongue in smokefree Australia -- Introduction -- Seeing the tongue -- Tongue-tasting -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 9 Sensing late-liberal state failure: Ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city -- Expectations of the state in Bremerhaven -- Smells like state failure -- Making the state know -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Dialysis in the desert: Blood, biomedical technologies, and transformation in Central Australia -- Introduction |
| Notes |
Blood and pirlirrpa problems |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vokes, Richard
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| ISBN |
9781000185799 |
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1000185796 |
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