Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate violence and inequality.
Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate violence and inequality.
Brigittine M. French is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Peace & Conflict Studies Program at Grinnell College. French is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on testimony, violence, and rights in post-conflict nations. She is the author of Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala (2010). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, American Anthropologist, Language in Society, and the Annual Review of Anthropology.
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Introduction: Telling and Re-telling Anthropological Tales of States and Conflicts 1. Transforming the Legal System: Expert Knowledge and the Promise of Equality 2. Disciplining Gendered Citizenship in the Courtroom 3. In Loco Parentis: Embodied Punishment and the State in the Classroom 4. The Unwritten Law Legibility and Land Conflicts 5. War Commemorations the IRA and an Uncertain Future Conclusion: Legacies of Conflict Violence and the State
Introduction: Telling and Re-telling Anthropological Tales of States and Conflicts 1. Transforming the Legal System: Expert Knowledge and the Promise of Equality 2. Disciplining Gendered Citizenship in the Courtroom 3. In Loco Parentis: Embodied Punishment and the State in the Classroom 4. The Unwritten Law Legibility and Land Conflicts 5. War Commemorations the IRA and an Uncertain Future Conclusion: Legacies of Conflict Violence and the State
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