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Crime's Power

Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Philip C. Parnell

    1. Anthropology, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Center on Southeast Asia, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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  2. Stephanie C. Kane

    1. Anthropology, Folklore, Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Philip C. Parnell
    Pages 1-32

  3. Traversing the Q’eqchi’ Imaginary

    • Hilary E. Kahn
    Pages 33-54

  4. Crime as a Category—Domestic and Globalized

    • Laura Nader
    Pages 55-76

  5. The Anthropologist Accused

    • June Starr
    Pages 77-97

  6. Wild Power in Post-Military Brazil

    • Daniel T. Linger
    Pages 99-124

  7. Recognition of State Authority as a Cost of Involvement in Moroccan Border Crime

    • David A. McMurray
    Pages 125-144

  8. Representations of Crime

    • Anne Brydon, Pauline Greenhill
    Pages 145-172

  9. Criminal Instabilities

    • JoAnn Martin
    Pages 173-195

  10. Criminalizing Colonialism

    • Philip C. Parnell
    Pages 197-220

  11. Mafia Without Malfeasance, Clans Without Crime

    • Janine R. Wedel
    Pages 221-244

  12. Hear No Evil, Read No Evil, Write No Evil

    • Vera Mark
    Pages 245-267

  13. Solidarity and Objectivity

    • Carol J. Greenhouse
    Pages 269-291

  14. Epilogue

    • Stephanie C. Kane
    Pages 293-296

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 297-310
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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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"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 Foundation

"What does it mean to take an anthropological perspective on crime? This important volume revisits the critically important insight that crime is a socially constructed category and shows its implications for governance and power around the world. Challenging the current preoccupation with crime control, this radical perspective examines how actions come to be defined as crimes and explores whose interests are served by these definitions in case studies from Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S." - Sally Engle Merry, professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College

Editors and Affiliations

  • Anthropology, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Center on Southeast Asia, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Philip C. Parnell

  • Anthropology, Folklore, Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    Stephanie C. Kane

About the editors

PHILIP C. PARNELL is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University in Bloomington with appointments in Anthropology, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, and the Center on Southeast Asia. He is author of the book Escalating Disputes: Social Participation and Change in the Oaxacan Higlands. He has also recently served as the American Ethnologist's Editor for Reviews.

STEPHANIE C. KANE is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University with appointments in Anthropology, Folklore, and Latin American Studies. She is author of The Phantom Gringo Beat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama and AIDS Alibis: Sex, Drugs, and Crime in the Americas.

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