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Author Lubkemann, Stephen C., 1968-

Title Culture in chaos : an anthropology of the social condition in war / Stephen C. Lubkemann.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.66 L967c 2008    ---  Available
Description x, 401 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-391) and index.
Contents Introduction: The "ordering of violent things" : war and displacement -- Contending with colonialism : migration and resistance -- Other struggles : migration and the transformation of social relations -- Imposing the new Mozambique : sowing the seeds of postcolonial disillusion -- Society and the state : mutual misrecognition at the gathering of war -- Prosecuting life by other means : the social logic of violence in a fragmented war -- Terrains of displacement : war-time mobility and immobility -- Tambem aqui fazemos amor : living in war -- Postconflict displacements : the social problematics of refugee return -- Transnational contentions : the moral economy of postconflict migration -- Where to be an ancestor? : the struggle for the postconflict social imagination.
Subject War.
Social conflict.
Political violence.
Forced migration.
ISBN 0226496422 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226496412 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226496414 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226496429 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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