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Fiscal Disobedience. an Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa
Academic journal article from The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2
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Fiscal Disobedience. An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa. By Janet Roitman. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 233. $59.50/£38.95 cloth, $19.95/£12.95 paper.
Janet Roitman has taken on an extremely difficult ethnographic and theoretical task in this book. She focuses attention on an area of Africa whose integrity as a unit of study derives from its long term history as a borderland. Nothing so simple, however, as to be on the same sociopolitical border over time. Rather, this area where the frontiers of the modern countries of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, and Central African Republic meet on the map has been recurrently occupied …
