Pastoral power in the postcolony: On the biopolitics of the criminal animal in South India

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-117

  Pandian, Anand ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal; Biopolitics; Government; Human; India; Modernity; Postcoloniality; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349096676     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00004.x     Document Type: Article

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