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 of power across the spectrum of human differences.

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Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2003

ISBN

9781403980595

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Anthropology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Crime’s Power
1 Traversing the Q’eqchi’ Imaginary: The Conjecture of Crime in Livingston, Guatemala
2 Crime as a Category—Domestic and Globalized
3 The Anthropologist Accused
4 Wild Power in Post-Military Brazil
5 Recognition of State Authority as a Cost of Involvement in Moroccan Border Crime
6 Representations of Crime: On Showing Paintings by a Serial Killer
7 Criminal Instabilities: Narrative Interruptions and the Politics of Criminality
8 Criminalizing Colonialism: Democracy Meets Law in Manila
9 Mafia without Malfeasance, Clans without Crime: The Criminality Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe
10 Hear No Evil, Read No Evil, Write No Evil: Inscriptions of French World War II Collaborationism
11 Solidarity and Objectivity: Re-reading Durkheim
Epilogue
Contributors
Index