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"Beyond being topical, this groundbreaking collection represents precisely the kind of inquiry that contemporary anthropology should be dedicating itself to--one brave enough to abide, ethnographically and theoretically, in the interstices of knowledge-based and experiential models, in the gaps between individual and collective agency, in realms of historical and cultural contingency."--Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College
Sommario
Introduction: Altered States, Altered Lives / Carol J. Greenhouse
Part One: Law against Culture
Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror / Carroll McC. Lewin
Unsettled Settlers: Internal Pacification and Vagrancy in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon
Judges without Courts: The Legal Culture of German Reunification / Howard J. De Nike
Part Two: Ethnographies of Agency in the Fissures of the State
Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration / Stacia E. Zabusky
The Composite State: The Poor and the Nation in Manila / Phillip C. Parnell
Domestic Matters: Feminism and Activism Among Palestinian Women in Israel / Elizabeth Faier
“Best Interests” and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors / James M. Freeman and Nguyen Dinh Huu
Part Three: Resistance and Remembrance
Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity, and Territory in the New Europe / Eve Darian-Smith
“Honest Bandits” and “Warped People”: Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay / Nancy Ries
Trance Against the State / Judy Rosenthal
Part Four: Conclusion
The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Culture / Elizabeth Mertz
Toward in Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions / Kay B. Warren
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Carol J. Greenhouse, Elizabeth Mertz, and Kay B. Warren, eds.
Riassunto
Collection of anthropological essays studying radical social transformation - including violence - and its effects on the everyday lives of people in a variety of world regions.
