The anthropologist,the state,the empire and the ‘tribe’ |
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| Authors: | Laura Nader |
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| Institution: | Professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Naked science (Routledge 1996), with Ugo Mattei Plunder: When the rule of law is illegal (Wiley‐Blackwell 2008), Culture and dignity – Dialogues between the Middle East and the West (Wiley‐Blackwell 2013), and in spring 2015, What the rest think of the West – 600 AD‐2014 (University of California Press). |
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| Abstract: | This review of Akbar Ahmed's The thistle and the drone finds that the book opens new dimensions for understanding the relations between state and peripheral groups. |
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