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Title Order and disorder [electronic resource] : anthropological perspectives / [edited by] Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie.

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Description 176 p. : ill.
Note "Volume developed from a conference held at and funded by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 26 and 27 November 2004"--Pref.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie -- Order and the evocation of heritage : representing quality in the French biscuit trade / Simon Roberts -- Pride, honour, individual and collective violence : order in a 'lawless' village / Aimar Ventsel -- Order, individualism and responsibility : contrasting dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau / Fernanda Pirie -- Vigilante groups and the state in West Africa / Tilo Gratz -- Imposing new concepts of order in rural Morocco : violence and transnational challenges to local order / Bertram Turner -- Law, ritual and order / Peter Just -- The disorders of an order : state and society in Ottoman and Turkish trabzon / Michael E. Meeker -- Anthropological order and political disorder / Jonathan Spencer.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Political anthropology -- Congresses.
Order -- Congresses.
Social conflict -- Congresses.
Political violence -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von.
Pirie, Fernanda, 1964-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781845451981 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845451988 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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