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Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Indiviual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes,1885-1935

Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Indiviual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes,1885-1935

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AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceSouth American History

ISBN10: 0804727821
ISBN13: 9780804727822
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 1997
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Challenging much received wisdom about nation-states--how they form, what sustains them, why they fail--this study of subaltern social groups in the Chachapoyas region of Peru analyzes the emergence of the modern nation-state from below. By approaching nation-state formation from the perspective of the subaltern, the book offers a critique of scholarship that sees coercion and the imposition of social and cultural forms as the core of nation-state expansion. This coercive view bears virtually no relation to the complex transformations in power, culture, and economy that resulted in the consolidation of national control in the Chachapoyas region.

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