CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Bruce Kapferer
Preface xii
PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES
1. Introduction 3
Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad
2. Sovereignty, the Spatial Politics of Security, and Gender:
Looking North and South from the US–Mexico Border 27
Ana M. Alonso
PART II A VIEW FROM COMMUNITIES
3. Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama
from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 55
Clifton Crais
4. State Formation through Development in Post-apartheid
South Africa 79
Knut G. Nustad
5. Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State
in the Southwestern Dominican Republic 96
Christian Krohn-Hansen
6. The Materiality of State-Effects: An Ethnography of a Road
in the Peruvian Andes 123
Penelope Harvey
7. Contradictory Notions of the State: Returned Refugees in
Guatemala 142
Kristi Anne Stølen
PART III A VIEW FROM STATE BODIES
8. Counting on State Subjects: State Formation and Citizenship in
Twentieth-century Mexico 171
Helga Baitenmann
9. ‘A Speech that the Entire Ministry May Stand For’:
On Generating State Voice 195
Iver B. Neumann
10. ‘Better Safe than Sorry’: Legislating Assisted Conception
in Norway 212
Marit Melhuus
11. The State of the State in Europe, or, ‘What is the European
Union that Anthropologists Should be Mindful of It?’ 234
Cris Shore
Contributors 256
Index 257
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