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.
Author(s): Philip C. Parnell, Stephanie C. Kane
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2003
Language: English
Commentary: 29865
Pages: 320
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Introduction: Crime’s Power......Page 10
1 Traversing the Q’eqchi’ Imaginary: The Conjecture of Crime in Livingston, Guatemala......Page 42
2 Crime as a Category—Domestic and Globalized......Page 64
3 The Anthropologist Accused......Page 86
4 Wild Power in Post-Military Brazil......Page 108
5 Recognition of State Authority as a Cost of Involvement in Moroccan Border Crime......Page 134
6 Representations of Crime: On Showing Paintings by a Serial Killer......Page 154
7 Criminal Instabilities: Narrative Interruptions and the Politics of Criminality......Page 182
8 Criminalizing Colonialism: Democracy Meets Law in Manila......Page 206
9 Mafia without Malfeasance, Clans without Crime: The Criminality Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe......Page 230
10 Hear No Evil, Read No Evil, Write No Evil: Inscriptions of French World War II Collaborationism......Page 254
11 Solidarity and Objectivity: Re-reading Durkheim......Page 278
Epilogue......Page 302
Contributors......Page 306
C......Page 310
E......Page 312
G......Page 313
K......Page 314
M......Page 315
P......Page 316
S......Page 317
T......Page 318
Z......Page 319
