 | State Theory and Andean Politics: New Approaches to the Study of Rule Subjects: Andes Region -- Politics and government; Nation-building -- Andes Region; Political anthropology -- Andes Region; Nation-building -- Philosophy; Political anthropology; State Theory and Andean Politics explores the material and cultural processes by which states come to appear as real and tangible parts of everyday life in the Andes, showing the state to be one of many forces vying for a claim to legitimate domination in a highly contested political field. Christopher Krupa teaches anthropology at the University of Toronto. David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology and director of the Master's in Development Practice program at Emory University. He is the author of Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes. |
