Greenhouse / Mertz / Warren Ethnography in Unstable Places

Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8348-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 446 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhouse, Carol J.

Mertz, Elizabeth

Warren, Kay B.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McC. Lewin, Carroll

Gordon, Robert J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Contributors

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carol J. Greenhouse is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.Elizabeth Mertz is Associate Professor of Law and affiliated faculty in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also Senior Research Fellow for the American Bar Foundation.Kay B. Warren is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University.