Order and Disorder : : Anthropological Perspectives / / ed. by Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Fernanda Pirie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von,; Grätz, Tilo,; Just, Peter,; Meeker, Michael E.,; Pirie, Fernanda,; Roberts, Simon,; Spencer, Jonathan,; Turner, Bertram,; Ventsel, Aimar,
• HerausgeberIn: Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von,; Pirie, Fernanda,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2 ORDER AND THE EVOCATION OF HERITAGE: REPRESENTING QUALITY IN THE FRENCH BISCUIT TRADE -- Chapter 3 PRIDE, HONOUR, INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE: ORDER IN A ‘LAWLESS’ VILLAGE -- Chapter 4 ORDER, INDIVIDUALISM AND RESPONSIBILITY: CONTRASTING DYNAMICS ON THE TIBETAN PLATEAU -- Chapter 5 VIGILANTE GROUPS AND THE STATE IN WEST AFRICA -- Chapter 6 IMPOSING NEW CONCEPTS OF ORDER IN RURAL MOROCCO: VIOLENCE AND TRANSNATIONAL CHALLENGES TO LOCAL ORDER -- Chapter 7 LAW, RITUAL AND ORDER -- Chapter 8 THE DISORDERS OF AN ORDER: STATE AND SOCIETY IN OTTOMAN AND TURKISH TRABZON -- Chapter 9 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DISORDER -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX