• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: New formations of power, the oligarchic-corporate state, and anthropological ideological discourse
  • Contributor: Kapferer, Bruce
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2005
  • Published in: Anthropological Theory, 5 (2005) 3, Seite 285-299
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/1463499605055961
  • ISSN: 1463-4996; 1741-2641
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  • Description: <jats:p>The article presents a broad claim that the political environment of the nation-state is complicated by the emergence to dominance of state and state-like oligarchic-corporate state formations. These are considered as a relatively new kind of political departure that constitutes a reconfiguration of the relation of controlling interests to social realities. The argument develops the suggestion that some recent anthropological orientations to the state are relatively unreflective as to their own ideological positioning.</jats:p>