Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime
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Description for Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime
Hardcover. Editor(s): Parnell, Philip C.; Kane, Stephanie C. Num Pages: 317 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMP; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
The changes that are engulfing the world today - the fall of nation-states and dictatorships, migrations and border crossings, revolution, democratization, and the international spread of capital - call for new approaches to the subject of crime. Anthropologists engage a variety of methods to answer that call in Crime's Power . Their view of crime extends into the intimacies of everyday life as war transforms personal identities, the violence of a serial killer inhabits paintings, and as the feel of imprisonment reveals society's potentials. Moving beyond the fixities of law, this book explores the nature of crime as an expression ... Read more
The changes that are engulfing the world today - the fall of nation-states and dictatorships, migrations and border crossings, revolution, democratization, and the international spread of capital - call for new approaches to the subject of crime. Anthropologists engage a variety of methods to answer that call in Crime's Power . Their view of crime extends into the intimacies of everyday life as war transforms personal identities, the violence of a serial killer inhabits paintings, and as the feel of imprisonment reveals society's potentials. Moving beyond the fixities of law, this book explores the nature of crime as an expression ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403961792
SKU
V9781403961792
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PHILIP C. PARNELL is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University in Bloomington with appointments in Anthropology, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, and the Center on Southeast Asia. He is author of the book Escalating Disputes: Social Participation and Change in the Oaxacan Higlands. He has also recently served as the American Ethnologist's Editor for Reviews. STEPHANIE ... Read more
Reviews for Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime
"The essays that make up Crime's Power draw upon the best tools of anthropology to attack, undermine, and encircle the issue of "crime." They provide fresh insights into the social category "crime" and a fascinating window into major issues of power, law, development, neoliberalism, and globalization generally. Fun to read and at the same time theoretically rich..." - Bryant Garth, ... Read more