Governing Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government

Contents: Government matters: Intellectual labor and the work of governing / Kendra Coulter and William R. Schumann -- Navigating the illegible state: The political labor of government in Mexico / Tara A. Schwegler -- A project of governing and its contradictions: Maternal-infant care in highland Ecuador / A. Kim Clark -- Governing beef: Program implementation, unintended consequences, and BSE control in Alberta / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- Selling clear red water: The identity politics of governing in the National Assembly for Wales / William R. Schumann -- Legislative authenticity and the politics of recognition: Being a Māori member of the New Zealand parliament / Ilana Gershon -- Gendering government: Political labor and the production of policy and political culture / Kendra Coulter -- The work of being governed: From the welfare state to the "big society" in Britain / Susan Brin Hyatt -- The will to end hunger in the age of security: Food security, national security and community-based food security in the United States / David V. Fazzino II -- The work of governing / John Clarke.