Order and disorder : anthropological perspectives
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Order and disorder : anthropological perspectives
Berghahn Books, 2007
- : hbk
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  Fukui
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  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Note
"This volume developed from a conference held at and funded by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 26 and 27 November 2004."--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 institutionalization of violence by military and legal establishments, yet violent behaviour can be incorporated into the social order by the development of boundaries, rituals and established processes of conflict resolution. Order is said to depend upon justice, yet injustice legitimates disruptive protest. Case studies from Siberia, India, Indonesia, Tibet, West Africa, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire show that local responses are often inconsistent in their valorization, acceptance and condemnation of disorder.
Table of Contents
List of Plates
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie
Chapter 2. Order and the Evocation of Heritage: Representing Quality in the French Biscuit Trade
Simon Roberts
Chapter 3. Pride, Honour, Individual and Collective Violence: Order in a 'Lawless' Village
Aimar Ventsel
Chapter 4. Order, Individualism and Responsibility: Contrasting Dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau
Fernanda Pirie
Chapter 5. Vigilante Groups and the State in West Africa
Tilo Gratz
Chapter 6. Imposing New Concepts of Order in Rural Morocco: Violence and Transnational Challenges to Local Order
Bertam Turner
Chapter 7. Law, Ritual and Order
Peter Just
Chapter 8. The Disorders of an Order: State and Society in Ottoman and Turkish Trabzon
Michael E. Meeker
Chapter 9. Anthropological Order and Political Disorder
Jonathan Spencer
Notes on Contributors
Index
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