Order and disorder
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives
By: [edited by] Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie.
Contributors: Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von.; Pirie, Fernanda, 1964-
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781845451981
Subjects: Political anthropology -- Congresses.; Order -- Congresses.; Social conflict -- Congresses.; Political violence -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Volume developed from a conference held at and funded by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 26 and 27 November 2004"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie; value: Order and the evocation of heritage : representing quality in the French biscuit trade / Simon Roberts; value: Pride, honour, individual and collective violence : order in a 'lawless' village / Aimar Ventsel; value: Order, individualism and responsibility : contrasting dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau / Fernanda Pirie; value: Vigilante groups and the state in West Africa / Tilo Grätz; value: Imposing new concepts of order in rural Morocco : violence and transnational challenges to local order / Bertram Turner; value: Law, ritual and order / Peter Just; value: The disorders of an order : state and society in Ottoman and Turkish trabzon / Michael E. Meeker; value: Anthropological order and political disorder / Jonathan Spencer.