Folkets repræsentanter. Et antropologisk blik på Folketinget
(The People’s Representatives. An Anthropological Look at the Danish Parliament)

The People’s Representatives. An Anthropological Look at the Danish Parliament edited by Finn Sivert Nielsen and Inger Sjørslev was published in November 2002.

Aarhus University Press
199 pages
DKK 198.00
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The people’s representatives are busy people. The activity level at Christiansborg is high, and nothing takes place in a void. On the contrary, the elected representatives operate in a world with its own rules, its own ideas and its own sociality. Christiansborg is a self-contained society. Elected representatives, government officials, communications liaisons with the outside world, all have to know the – mostly unwritten – rules that govern this society.

Armed with anthropological methods and theory, a group of students and researchers examine the world of the elected representatives with its praxis, its different locales, hidden assumptions, ideas about what politics is, and its notions about the people.


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