TY  - GEN
T1  - Reproducing the State.
A1  - Stevens, Jacqueline
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1999
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1206398514
AB  - People are said to acquire their affiliations of ethnicity, race, and sex at birth. Hence, these affiliations have long been understood to be natural, independent of the ability of political societies to define who we are. Reproducing the State vigorously challenges the conventional view, as well as post-structuralist scholarship that minimizes state power. Jacqueline Stevens examines birth-based theories of membership and group affiliations in political societies ranging from the Athenian polis, to tribes of Australia, to the French republic, to the contemporary United States. The book details how political societies determine the kinship rules that are used to reproduce political societies. Stevens analyzes the ways that ancestral and territorial birth rules for membership in political societies pattern other intergenerational affiliations. She shows how the notion of ethnicity depends on the implicit or explicit invocation of a past, present, or future political society. She also shows how geography is used to represent political regions, including continents, as the seemingly natural underpinning for racial taxonomies perpetuated through miscegenation laws and birth certificates. And Stevens argues that sex differences are also constituted through membership practices of political societies. In its chronological and disciplinary range, Reproducing the State will reward the interest of scholars in many fields, including anthropology, history, political science, sociology, women's studies, race studies, and ethnic studies.
OP  - 328
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - GN495.6 .S74 1999eb
SN  - 9780691222448
SN  - 0691222444
SN  - 0691017131
SN  - 9780691017136
SN  - 069101714X
SN  - 9780691017143
KW  - Ethnicity : Political aspects.
KW  - Race relations.
KW  - Sex role.
KW  - Kinship.
KW  - Political anthropology.
KW  - Ethnicité : Aspect politique.
KW  - Relations raciales.
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe.
KW  - Parenté.
KW  - Anthropologie politique.
KW  - sex role.
KW  - kinship.
KW  - 73.70 political anthropology: general.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - Ethnicity : Political aspects
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Political anthropology
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Ethnische Beziehungen
KW  - Ethnizität
KW  - Geschlecht
KW  - Politische Anthropologie
KW  - Rasse
KW  - Politieke antropologie.
KW  - Etnisch bewustzijn.
KW  - Verwantschap.
KW  - Staat (politicologie)
KW  - African-Americans.
KW  - Athens.
KW  - Benedict, Ruth.
KW  - Brown, Wendy.
KW  - Butler Judith.
KW  - Christian, Christianity.
KW  - Dahl, Robert.
KW  - Dürkheim, Emile.
KW  - Filipino.
KW  - Halicarnassians.
KW  - Herodotus.
KW  - Jesus Christ.
KW  - Livy.
KW  - adoption.
KW  - ancestry.
KW  - anthropology.
KW  - birth certificate.
KW  - capital.
KW  - civil society.
KW  - court.
KW  - culture.
KW  - deconstruction.
KW  - democracy.
KW  - discrimination.
KW  - distributive justice.
KW  - economics.
KW  - education.
KW  - egalitarian.
KW  - ethnicity.
KW  - exclusivity.
KW  - family.
KW  - feudalism.
KW  - freedom.
KW  - gender.
KW  - geography.
KW  - government.
KW  - hereditary.
KW  - history.
KW  - illegitimacy.
KW  - immigration.
KW  - inequalities.
KW  - infant mortality.
KW  - intergenerationality.
KW  - knowledge activity.
KW  - liberty.
KW  - marriage.
KW  - matrilineality.
KW  - membership.
KW  - natality.
KW  - patriarchy.
ER  -