Culture in Chaos An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War

Name: Culture in Chaos An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War
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ISBN: 9780226496429

ISBN-10: 0226496422

ISBN-13: 9780226496429

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen C. Lubkemann

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Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Stephen C. Lubkemann suggests that we need a fresh perspective on war when it becomes the context for normal life rather than an exceptional event that disrupts it.Culture in Chaoscalls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result. Lubkemann focuses on how Ndau social networks were…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Notes on the Text


Introduction. The "Ordering of Violent Things": War and Displacement



Migration and Social Transformation before the War



Contending with Colonialism: Migration and Resistance



Other Struggles: Migration and the Transformation of Social Relations



The Social Conditioning of War



Imposing the New Mozambique: Sowing the Seeds of Postcolonial Disillusion



Society and the State: Mutual Misrecognition at the Gathering of War



Prosecuting Life by Other Means: The Social Logic of Violence in a Fragmented War



The Social Condition in War



Terrains of Displacement: War-time Mobility and Immobility



Tambem Aqui Fazemos Amor: Living in War



War as a Socially Transformative Condition



Postconflict Displacements: The Social Problematics of Refugee Return



Transnational Contentions: The Moral Economy of Postconflict Migration



Where to Be an Ancestor? The Struggle for the Postconflict Social Imagination


Notes


References


Index