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Order and Disorder

Anthropological Perspectives

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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 t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Pirie, Fernanda (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85745-002-9
EAN: 9780857450029
Produktnummer: 20453125
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'759 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Fernanda Pirie is Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. She has carried out research into conflict and its resolution in both Ladakh and among the nomads of Amdo in eastern Tibet. Her writings focus on order and disorder and the relations between law and religion. She is the author of the forthcoming Peace and conflict in Ladakh: the construction of a fragile web of order (Brill 2006).