Publications
Publication details [#41999]
Geertz, Clifford. 2004. What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign? Reflections on Politics in Complicated Places. Current Anthropology 45 (4) : 577–594. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses the problems of government in new postcolonial, multiethnic, multireligious, and multilinguistic Asian and African states, and the possible contribution of anthropology in clarifying issues like these.