Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise
Specifically elaborating on the posture and construction of alterity and difference in anthropology, this volume distinguishes between three central strands of the ontological turn, namely worldviews,
"Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They includ