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Jean Genet and the semiotics of performance
Hidden Transcripts And The Arts Of Resistance: Applying The Work Of James C ...

Hidden Transcripts And The Arts Of Resistance: Applying The Work Of James C ...

Richard A. Horsley - Religion - 2004 - 208 pages
The essays in this volume develop the highly suggestive insights and theory of James C. Scott--especially those related to patterns of domination and subordination, the role of ...
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State Simplifications: Some Applications to Southeast Asia
Hero and Chief: Epic Literature from the Banyanga Zaire Republic
The Death and Life of The Great American School System: How Testing and ...

The Death and Life of The Great American School System: How Testing and ...

Diane Ravitch - Education - 2010 - 283 pages
Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public ...
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State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute ...

State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute ...

Joel S. Migdal - Political Science - 2001 - 291 pages
The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's "state-in-society" approach. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science ...
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State formation: anthropological perspectives

State formation: anthropological perspectives

Christian Krohn-Hansen, Knut G. Nustad - Social Science - 2005 - 263 pages
What is the state and how can we best study it?
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Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order

Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order

James Ferguson - Political Science - 2006 - 257 pages
DIVBoth on the continent and off, “Africa” is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the ...
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Documenting individual identity: the development of state practices in the ...

Documenting individual identity: the development of state practices in the ...

Caplan, John C. Torpey - History - 2001 - 415 pages
This book addresses one of the least studied yet most pervasive aspects of modern life--the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity ...
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Personal names studies of medieval Europe: social identity and familial ...

Personal names studies of medieval Europe: social identity and familial ...

George Beech, Monique Bourin, Pascal Chareille - History - 2002 - 205 pages
This collection of essays is the first published in North America that seeks to describe the methodology and some results of a scholarly enterprise that is hailed in the ...
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