| Description |
439 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Altered States, Altered Lives / Carol J. Greenhouse -- Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. Conclusion. The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Closure / Elizabeth Mertz. Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions / Kay B. Warren.ional Separatio |
| Summary |
Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. The contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation--in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post-Cold War climates--from the standpoints of ordinary people caught up in and having to cope with the collapse or reconfiguration of the states in which they live. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political stability -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Social structure -- Political aspects -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-
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Warren, Kay B., 1947-
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Mertz, Elizabeth.
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| LC no. |
2001053188 |
| ISBN |
082232833X cloth alkaline paper |
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0822328488 paperback alkaline paper |
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