Political Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic

CHRISTIAN KROHN-HANSEN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is coeditor, with Knut G. Nustad, of State Formation: Anthropological Perspectives.

• Introduction*Island, State, and Community*Kin, Friends, and Leaders*Chapter 4*Negotiating Rule: The Reformists and the Public Sector*Negotiating Rule: Political Fraud as Interaction*Constructing Masculinity, Negotiating Rule*Making the Nation*Bloody Memories*Conclusion

"This book is an investigation of political networks and cultural ideas of power and authority conducted by the author since the early 1990s in the Dominican Republic. This is a richly documented and well-informed study of how authoritarian rule was created, legitimated, and embraced by various dominant and subaltern groups in Dominican society for many decades." - Thomas Blom Hansen, Religious Studies at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the Universiteit van Amsterdam