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.
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.
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
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
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