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This course examines the institutions, spaces, ideas,
practices, and representations that constitute
and question the nation-state. It draws on perspectives
on the state developed within other disciplines.
Simultaneously, a distinctively anthropological
understanding of the state is articulated by
focusing on systems of meaning and belief; personhood
and agency; everyday practices; and persistent
structures and emergent forms. The course also
examines how institutions which are considered
to define the modern state, such as
citizenship, sovereignty, territoriality,
secularism, and violence, are manifested in and
represented by ethnographic research and writing.
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