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Introduction: States of Imagination
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Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa
TL;DR: Lund et al. as mentioned in this paper discussed the role of public authority and local politics in Africa and proposed the Twilight Institutions, a set of institutions that can be used to reorder society.
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Documents and bureaucracy
TL;DR: The authors surveys anthropological and other social research on bureaucratic documents and argues that documents are not simply instruments of bureaucratic organizations, but rather are constitutive of bureaucratic rules, ideologies, knowledge, practices, subjectivities, objects, outcomes, even the organizations themselves.
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For ethnography in political geography: Experiencing and re-imagining Ferghana Valley boundary closures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use ethnographic participant observation, a method largely neglected by political geographers, to highlight discrepancies between elite and everyday political geographical imaginations, which is parallel to, but not a replacement of, textual analyses informed by critical social theory.
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Embodying the nation-state:Canada's response to human smuggling
TL;DR: The authors argue that a shift in the scale of analysis of the nation-state, from national and global scales to the finer scale of the body reveals processes, relations, and experiences otherwise obscured.
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Protestant Buddhism and Social Identification in Ladakh / Bouddhisme protestant et identité sociale dans le Ladakh
TL;DR: In this paper, an articulo explora los implicitos historicos de the actividad social and politica observable entre the budistas of Ladakh. But, the articulo only concentrates on Ladakh, not on the rest of the world.
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Child Welfare Legislation in India: Will Indian Children Benefit from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Khatri : Vaishya or Kshatriya. An Essay on Colonial Administration and Cultural Identity
TL;DR: The controverse entre Indiens de la caste Khatri et gouvernement colonial britannique apparue en 1901 lors du recensement and concernant leur classification dans la hierarchie des castes as mentioned in this paper.
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Artisanal Cooperation, Forms of Labor, and the Global Economy, Chachapoyas, 1930s to the 1990s
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of artisanal production in the northern Peruvian Andes is presented, showing that purportedly "capitalist" economic practices may be fully commensurable with non-capitalist relations (e.g., forms of cooperation in the production process, kin ties, etc), and may even act as an obstacle to capital accumulation.