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Power, Community And The State: The Political Anthropology Of Organisation In Mexico (anthropology, Culture And Society) by Monique Nuijten; ProQuest (Firm) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Power, Community And The State: The Political Anthropology Of Organisation In Mexico (anthropology, Culture And Society) about?

This book explores the balance of power between the state and local communities, with particular reference to societies in the developing world. Monique Nuijten shows how rituals of bureaucratic power and accusations of corruption give flesh to incredible fantasies, and conspiracy theories among officials, peasants and brokers. At the same time she shows that in this labyrinthine world of bureaucratic obstacles and state control, local agrarian communities manage to find certain room for autonomy. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Mexico, Nuijten draws wide conclusions that can be applied to many societies. Providing a detailed ethnography, she focuses on various themes, including a theoretical anthropology of state power; families and factionalism after agrarian reform; local organisation; questions of law; corruption; and development theory.

Author

Monique Nuijten; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745319476

Subjects

Anthropology, Political Science, Science