Introduction -- Violence : war, state, and anthropology in Mozambique -- Territory : spatio-historical approaches to state formation -- Spirit : chiefly authority, soil, and medium -- Body : illness, memory, and the dynamics of healing -- Sovereignty : the Mozambican president and the ordering of sorcery -- Economy : substance, production, and accumulation -- Law : political authority and multiple sovereignties -- Conclusion : uncapturability, dynamics, and power
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-310) and index
