Culture in chaos : an anthropology of the social condition in war / Stephen C. Lubkemann.

Author/creator Lubkemann, Stephen C., 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Descriptionx, 401 pages : map ; 23 cm
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Contents Introduction: The "ordering of violent things" : war and displacement -- Contending with colonialism : migration and resistance -- Other struggles : migration and the transformation of social relations -- 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 -- Terrains of displacement : war-time mobility and immobility -- Tambem aqui fazemos amor : living in war -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [361]-391) and index.
LCCN 2007018948
ISBN9780226496412 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226496414 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226496429 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Joyner General Stacks GN 497 .L83 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold