TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Jacqueline
TI  - Reproducing the State
SN  - 9780691222448
AV  - GN495.6 
U1  - 305.8 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Political anthropology
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Sex role
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
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  - kinship
KW  - knowledge activity
KW  - liberty
KW  - marriage
KW  - matrilineality
KW  - membership
KW  - natality
KW  - patriarchy
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Introduction --; One The State of Membership --; Two The Nation and the Tragedy of Birth --; Three The Semiotics of Nationality: Naming Names --; Four Race and the State: Male-Order Brides and the Geographies of Race --; Five Compensatory Kinship Rules: The Mother of Gender --; Six The Religious Future --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the author; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691222448?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691222448
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691222448/original
ER  -