In Search of the State : An Ethnography of Public Service Provision in Urban Niger

This study explores public health and education provision in Niamey, the capital of Niger, by merging the ethnographic study of public services with an anthropological analysis of the state and of local politics. Based on anthropological fieldwork carried out in a group of neighbourhoods in the peri...

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Main Author: Körling, Gabriella
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Kulturantropologiska avdelningen 2011
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-157119
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-8127-8