This is a very, very powerful book, especially when thinking about the state as a concept, when thinking about it, it’s actualization, and how it obtains power, how it exercises power, and where it draws this power from really really such a great book, connecting the dots between poverty between bureaucracy between paperwork Wow I love this book and I read it all the time we were it was a prescribed reading, and I said yeah, anthropology cause advance, and I still go back to reading it every time to help myself reality check myself into existence, and into my relationships with the state. .