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Subject(s)

• Nation-building [Browse]
• Mozambique—Social conditions [Browse]

Funder

• University of Bergen [Browse]
• University of Bergen [Browse]

• University of Bergen [Browse]

Series

• Ethnography, theory, experiment. [More in this series]
• Ethnography, Theory, Experiment Series ; v.4.

Summary note

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.

Funding information

funded by University of Bergen

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Language note

In English.

Contents

• 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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Other title(s)

Violent Becomings

ISBN

1-78533-429-8

Doi

• 10.1515/9781785334290

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