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Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology of Organisation in Mexico

Power, Community and the State: The Political Anthropology of Organisation in Mexico

Nuijten, Monique

Paperback

Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society

AnthropologyGeneral Political SciencePoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0745319467
ISBN13: 9780745319469
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: Apr 20 2003
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
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.

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