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Order and Disorder

Anthropological Perspectives
1. Aufl.

von: Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Fernanda Pirie
32,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.02.2008
ISBN/EAN:	9780857450029
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	184

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates Preface
 <a>Chapter 1.</a><a> Introduction</a> 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 Grätz
 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

Autorenportrait

Keebet von Benda-Beckmann is head of the project group ‘Legal Pluralism’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle, Germany. She is Professor of Anthropology of Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Honorary Professor at the universities of Leipzig and Halle. Her research focuses on legal pluralism, disputing, decentralization, social security and natural resources in Indonesia and the Netherlands. Publications include <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20101213210206/http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BeckmannChanging">Changing Properties of Property</a>, co-edited with Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Melanie Wiber (Berghahn 2006).