Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Sources xi
5. Part I. State Formation as Antiepistemology
6. Introduction. The Routine and the Remarkable in State Formation 3
7. 1. Sacropolitics 28
8. 2. The Descent into Madness 50
9. Part II. The Rise and Demise of Elite Political Structures
10. 3. The Consolidation of Casta Rule 81
11. 4. Being (and Seeing) Like a State 108
12. 5. Divided Elite and Disordered State 136
13. Part III. The Antiepistemology of the Everyday
14. 6. The Sacropolitics of Military Conscription 165
15. 7. The Sacropolitics of Labor Conscription 193
16. 8. Glimpses of Danger and Subversion 216
17. Conclusion. Behind the Mask of the State 242
18. Notes 249
19. Bibliography 267
20. Index 279