Order and Disorder

Anthropological Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvKeebet von Benda-Beckmann,Fernanda Pirie,Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt259 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9780857451484

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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 Changing Properties of Property, co-edited with Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Melanie Wiber (Berghahn 2006).

List of PlatesPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionKeebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda PirieChapter 2. Order and the Evocation of Heritage: Representing Quality in the French Biscuit TradeSimon RobertsChapter 3. Pride, Honour, Individual and Collective Violence: Order in a 'Lawless' VillageAimar VentselChapter 4. Order, Individualism and Responsibility: Contrasting Dynamics on the Tibetan PlateauFernanda PirieChapter 5. Vigilante Groups and the State in West AfricaTilo GrätzChapter 6. Imposing New Concepts of Order in Rural Morocco: Violence and Transnational Challenges to Local OrderBertam TurnerChapter 7. Law, Ritual and OrderPeter JustChapter 8. The Disorders of an Order: State and Society in Ottoman and Turkish TrabzonMichael E. MeekerChapter 9. Anthropological Order and Political DisorderJonathan SpencerNotes on ContributorsIndex