Crime's Power Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime

by Parnell, Philip C.; Kane, Stephanie C.

• ISBN13: 9781403961808
• ISBN10: 1403961808
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 the smell 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 Biography

Philip C. Parnell is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, Bloomington with appointments in Anthropology, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, and the Center on Southeast Asia.

Stephanie C. Kane is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, Bloomington with appointments in Anthropology, Folklore, and Gender Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Introduction: Crime's Power	1	(32)
Philip C. Darnell
1. Traversing the Q'egchi' Imaginary: The Conjecture of Crime in Livingston, Guatemala	33	(22)
Hilary E. Kahn
2. Crime as a Category-Domestic and Globalized	55	(22)
Laura Nader
3. The Anthropologist Accused	77	(22)
June Starr
4. Wild Power in Post-Military Brazil	99	(26)
Daniel T. Linger
5. Recognition of State Authority as a Cost of Involvement in Moroccan Border Crime	125	(20)
David A. McMurray
6. Representations of Crime: On Showing Paintings by a Serial Killer	145	(28)
Anne Brydon and Pauline Greenhill
7. Criminal Instabilities: Narrative Interruptions and the Politics of Criminality	173	(24)
JoAnn Martin
8. Criminalizing Colonialism: Democracy Meets Law in Manila	197	(24)
Philip C. Darnell
9. Mafia without Malfeasance, Clans without Crime: The Criminality Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe	221	(24)
Janine R. Wedel
10. Hear No Evil, Read No Evil, Write No Evil: Inscriptions of French World War II Collaborationism	245	(24)
Vera Mark
11. Solidarity and Objectivity: Re-reading Durkheim	269	(24)
Carol J. Greenhouse
Epilogue	293	(4)
Stephanie C. Kane
Contributors	297	(4)
Index	301