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Title Hierarchy and value : comparative perspectives on moral order / edited by Jason Hickel and Naomi Haynes
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 157 pages)
Series Studies in social analysis ; volume 7
Studies in social analysis ; v. 7.
Contents Introduction : Hierarchy and value / Naomi Haynes and Jason Hickel -- Battle of cosmologies : the Catholic Church, Adat, and "inculturation" among Northern Lio, Indonesia / Signe Howell -- Vertical love : forms of submission and top-down power in Orthodox Ethiopia / Diego Maria Malara and Tom Boylston -- The good, the bad, and the dead : the place of destruction in the organization of social life, which means hierarchy / Frederick H. Damon -- Civilization, hierarchy, and political-economic inequality / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Islam and pious sociality : the ethics of hierarchy in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan / Arsalan Khan -- Demotion as value : rank infraction among the Ngadha in Flores, Indonesia / Olaf H. Smedal -- Afterword : The rise of hierarchy / David Graeber
Summary Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy-or the reemergence of old forms-as people try to reconstitute an imagined past of stable moral order. This is evident from the Islamic revival in the Middle East to visions of the 1950s family among conservatives in the United States. Why does this happen and how do we make sense of this phenomenon? Why do some communities see hierarchy as desireable? In this book, leading anthropologists draw on insightful ethnographic case studies from around the world to address these trends. Together, they develop a theory of hierarchy that treats it both as a relational form and a framework for organizing ideas about the social good
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social structure -- Case studies
Hierarchies -- Case studies
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Case studies
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Hierarchies.
Social structure.
Sozialstruktur
Hierarchie
Wertorientierung
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Hickel, Jason, 1982- editor.
Haynes, Naomi, editor
LC no. 2018026056
ISBN 9781785339981
1785339982