Crime's Power Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime [Hardcover]

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.Introduction Traversing the Q'eqchi' Imaginary: The Conjecture of Crime in Livingston; Guatemala; H.E.Kahn Crime as a Category-Domestic and Globalized; L.Nader The Anthropologist Accused; J.Starr Wild Power in Post-Military Brazil; D.T.Linger Recognition of State Authority as a Cost of Involvement in Moroccan Border Crime; D.A.McMurray Representations of Crime: On Showing Paintings by a Serial Killer; A.Brydon & P.Greenhill Criminal Instabilities: Narrative Interruptions and the Politics of Criminality; J.Martin Criminalizing Colonialism: Democracy Meets Law in Manila; P.C.Parnell Mafia Without Malfeasance, Clans Without Crime: The Criminality Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe; J.Wedel Hear No Evil, Read No Evil, Write No Evil: Inscriptions of the French World War II Collaborationism; V.Mark Solidarity and Objectivity: Re-reading Durkheim; C.J.Greenhouse Epilogue; S.Kane

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, Director, American Bar Foundal£)