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Empires, Nations, and Natives
ISBN: 9780822387107
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Politics and culture.; Political customs and rites.; Political anthropology.;

By drawing on the social history of the social sciences, the sociology of scientific knowledge, and the ethnography of the State, these essays show how anthropology and state-building should be considered as intertwined processes.

Benoît de L'Estoile teaches social anthropology at the École Normale Supérieure and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, both in Paris.

Federico Neiburg teaches social anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Lygia Sigaud teaches social anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.