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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenhouse, Carol J., 1950-

Mertz, Elizabeth.

Warren, Kay B., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political stability--Social aspects--Case studies.

Political stability.

Social structure--Political aspects--Case studies.

Social structure.

Social structure--Political aspects.

Political stability--Social aspects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

439 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-426) and index.

ISBN:

082232833X

0822328488

OCLC:

48056300