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Ethnography in Unstable Places
Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change
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2002
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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.
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“Ethnography in Unstable Places is a profound exercise in ethnographic reflexivity. It seeks to consider new possibilities, new challenges, new horizons—at once conceptual, political, ethical—for an old anthropological method by taking it precisely where it was not designed to go: into everyday worlds radically transformed by hitherto unimagined
social conditions, unimaginable political circumstances, altered states, economies, subjectivities. Expansive in their scope, provocative in their theoretical implications, even poetic in their treatment of human lives, the essays in this volume show ‘where past has gone, where the future will come from’;the past and future, that is, of both anthropology and the worlds with which it concerns itself.”—John Comaroff, University of Chicago
social conditions, unimaginable political circumstances, altered states, economies, subjectivities. Expansive in their scope, provocative in their theoretical implications, even poetic in their treatment of human lives, the essays in this volume show ‘where past has gone, where the future will come from’;the past and future, that is, of both anthropology and the worlds with which it concerns itself.”—John Comaroff, University of Chicago
“Beyond being topical, this groundbreaking collection represents precisely the kind of inquiry that contemporary anthropology should be dedicating itself to—one brave enough to abide, ethnographically and theoretically, in the interstices of knowledge-based and experiential models, in the gaps between individual and collective agency, in realms of historical and cultural contingency.”—Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College
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Contents
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Introduction: Altered States, Altered Lives
1 - Part One. Law against Culture
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Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror
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Unsettled Settlers: Internal Pacification and Vagrancy in Namibia
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Judges without Courts: The Legal Culture of German Reunification
85 - Part Two. Ethnographies of Agency in the Fissures of the State
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Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration
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The Composite State: The Poor and the Nation in Manila
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Domestic Matters: Feminism and Activism among Palestinian Women in Israel
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‘‘Best Interests’’ and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors
210 - Part Three. Resistance and Remembrance
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Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity, and Territory in the New Europe
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‘‘Honest Bandits’’ and ‘‘Warped People’’: Russian Narratives about Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay
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Trance against the State
316 - Part Four. Conclusion
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The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Closure
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Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions
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Contributors
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Works Cited
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Index
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