Ethnography in unstable places : everyday lives in contexts of dramatic political change / edited by Carol J. Greenhouse, Elizabeth Mertz, and Kay B. Warren.

Other author Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-
Other author Mertz, Elizabeth.
Other author Warren, Kay B., 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Description439 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Political stability--Social aspects. --Case studies.
Social structure--Political aspects. --Case studies.

Contents Ghettos in the Holocaust: the improvisation of social order in a culture of terror / Carroll McC. Lewin -- Unsettled settlers: internal pacification and the vagrancy in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon -- Judges without courts: the legal culture of German reunification / Howard J. De Nike -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [395]-426) and index.
LCCN 2001053188
ISBN082232833X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822328488 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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