Tatjana Thelen is full professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, and recently fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, leading the research group on “Kinship and Politics.” She coedited a special issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology entitled “Social Security and Care after Socialism” (2007) and the volume Reconnecting State and Kinship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

Introduction to Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann



Chapter 1. Contingent Statehood: Clientelism and Civic Engagement as Relational Modalities in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina

Larissa Vetters



Chapter 2. The State, Legal Rigor, and the Poor: The Daily Practice of Welfare Control

Vincent Dubois



Chapter 3. Relationships, Practices, and Images of the Local State in Rural Russia

Rebecca Kay



Chapter 4. Acts of Assistance: Navigating the Interstices of the British State with the Help of Non-profit Legal Advisers

Alice Forbess and Deborah James



Chapter 5. Images of Care, Boundaries of the State: Volunteering and Civil Society in Czech Health Care

Rosie Read



Chapter 6. State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs

Tatjana Thelen, Andre Thiemann, and Duška Roth



Chapter 7. Workings of the State: Administrative Lists, European Union Food Aid, and the Local Practices of Distribution in Rural Romania

Ştefan Dorondel and Mihai Popa



Chapter 8. Creating the State Locally through Welfare Provision: Two Mayors, Two Welfare Regimes in Rural Hungary

Gyöngyi Schwarcz and Alexandra Szőke



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