INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 1 (2008) NO. 1

Contents

(Abstracts only)

• EDITORS’ WELCOME

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• Mimetic Errors in Liminal Schismogenesis: On the Political Anthropology of the Trickster

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  Agnes Horvath & Bjørn Thomassen

• Theses on a Theory of Religion

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  Martin Riesebrodt

• Obesity, Insatiability, and the Mutation of the Symbolic Order of the Meal

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  Kieran Keohane

• Citizenship and Home: Political Allegiance and its Background

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  Arpad Szakolczai

• Critique as Imitative Rivalry: George Orwell as Political Anthropologist

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  Tom Boland

• Forms of Civil Society: Politics and Social Relations in Russia

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  Michael Urban

• Democratisation as Meaning-Formation: Insights from the communist experience

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  Harald Wydra

• REFLECTIONS

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  Reasons for and Limits of the Secularization of the State

  Gianfranco Poggi

• REFLECTIONS

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  Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Revisited 

  Ivan Szelenyi

• BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS

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  Anthropology beyond Evolutionism: On Prehistoric Cave Art

  Arpad Szakolczai

• BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS

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  Towards a New Anthropological Paradigm, or The Challenge of Mimetic Theory 

  Harald Wydra

• Notes on Authors

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