ISBN:
1845451988
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9781845451981
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (176 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Order and Disorder : Anthropological Perspectives
Schlagwort(e):
Social conflict Congresses
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Political violence Congresses
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Political anthropology Congresses
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Order Congresses
Kurzfassung:
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume, highlight its complex and contested nature. Elaborate displays of order seem necessary to legitimate the institutionalisation of violence by military and legal establishments, yet violent behavi
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Introduction / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda PirieOrder and the evocation of heritage : representing quality in the French biscuit trade / Simon Roberts -- Pride, honour, individual and collective violence : order in a 'lawless' village / Aimar Ventsel -- Order, individualism and responsibility : contrasting dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau / Fernanda Pirie -- Vigilante groups and the state in West Africa / Tilo Grätz -- Imposing new concepts of order in rural Morocco : violence and transnational challenges to local order / Bertram Turner -- Law, ritual and order / Peter Just -- The disorders of an order : state and society in Ottoman and Turkish trabzon / Michael E. Meeker -- Anthropological order and political disorder / Jonathan Spencer.
Anmerkung:
"Volume developed from a conference held at and funded by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 26 and 27 November 2004"--Pref
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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