Comparing Impossibilities: Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore
Autor Sally Falk Mooreen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2016
Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives where she studied the Inca political system, and to the mountain of Kilimanjaro where she studied the politics of Tanzanian socialism. This book offers a compelling tour of Moore’s diverse experiences, a history of her thought as she reflects on her life and thought in the disciplines of anthropology, law, and politics.
The essays range from studies of myths of incest and sexuality to those of economic development projects, from South America to Africa. The result is an astonishing assortment of works from one of the most respected legal anthropologists in the field, one who brought together disparate places and ideas in enriching comparisons that showcase the possibilities—and impossibilities—of anthropology.
The essays range from studies of myths of incest and sexuality to those of economic development projects, from South America to Africa. The result is an astonishing assortment of works from one of the most respected legal anthropologists in the field, one who brought together disparate places and ideas in enriching comparisons that showcase the possibilities—and impossibilities—of anthropology.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780986132551
ISBN-10: 0986132551
Pagini: 390
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: HAU
Colecția HAU
ISBN-10: 0986132551
Pagini: 390
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: HAU
Colecția HAU
Notă biografică
Sally Falk Moore is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Anthropology emerita at Harvard University and an appointed affiliated professor of international legal studies at Harvard Law School. She is the author or editor of many books, including Law as Process, Anthropology and Africa, and Law and Anthropology.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Foreword by John Borneman
An Oblique Introduction
Part I: The Anthropologist and Anthropology
Chapter 1
Part of the Story: A Memoir
Chapter 2
Comparisons: Possible and Impossible
Chapter 3
Encountering Suspicion in Tanzania
Part II: Perspectives on Africa
Chapter 4
From Giving and Leading to Selling: Property Transactions Reflecting Historical Changes on Kilimanjaro
Chapter 5
History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro
Chapter 6
Treating Law as Knowledge: Telling Colonial Officers: What to Say to Africans about Running “Their Own”
Native Courts
Chapter 7
Individuals Interests and Organizational Structures: Dispute Settlements as “Events of Articulation”
Chapter 8
Explaining the Present: Theoretical Dilemmas in Processual Ethnography
Part III: Excursions into Mythology
Chapter 9
Descent and Symbolic Filiation
Chapter 10
The Secret of the Men: A Fiction of Chagga Initiation and its Relation to the Logic of Chagga Symbolism
Part IV: Social Fields and Their Politics
Chapter 11
Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject pf Study
Chapter 12
Political Meetings and the Simulation of Unanimity: Kilimanjaro 1973
Chapter 13
Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State
References
Index
Foreword by John Borneman
An Oblique Introduction
Part I: The Anthropologist and Anthropology
Chapter 1
Part of the Story: A Memoir
Chapter 2
Comparisons: Possible and Impossible
Chapter 3
Encountering Suspicion in Tanzania
Part II: Perspectives on Africa
Chapter 4
From Giving and Leading to Selling: Property Transactions Reflecting Historical Changes on Kilimanjaro
Chapter 5
History and the Redefinition of Custom on Kilimanjaro
Chapter 6
Treating Law as Knowledge: Telling Colonial Officers: What to Say to Africans about Running “Their Own”
Native Courts
Chapter 7
Individuals Interests and Organizational Structures: Dispute Settlements as “Events of Articulation”
Chapter 8
Explaining the Present: Theoretical Dilemmas in Processual Ethnography
Part III: Excursions into Mythology
Chapter 9
Descent and Symbolic Filiation
Chapter 10
The Secret of the Men: A Fiction of Chagga Initiation and its Relation to the Logic of Chagga Symbolism
Part IV: Social Fields and Their Politics
Chapter 11
Law and Social Change: The Semi-Autonomous Social Field as an Appropriate Subject pf Study
Chapter 12
Political Meetings and the Simulation of Unanimity: Kilimanjaro 1973
Chapter 13
Changing African Land Tenure: Reflections on the Incapacities of the State
References
Index
Recenzii
"Lawyer-turned-anthropologist, Sally Falk Moore has had one of the most diverse careers in anthropology… Comparing Impossibilities – a collection of Moore’s most famous essays on law, anthropology, and Africa – celebrates the breadth and diversity of her career through two different themes: those of processual anthropology and comparative methods.
…Overall, Comparing Impossibilities is a remarkable overview of Sally Falk Moore’s career and contribution to the field of anthropology at large, with a specific focus on her work in Tanzania and in legal anthropology – and especially regarding the transfer of land rights… [it] remains a brilliant demonstration of the ways in which anthropologists can mediate the tension between the ambition to account for situations in process, and the temporal ‘impossibilities’ that arise from the need to do so through their comparison."
…Overall, Comparing Impossibilities is a remarkable overview of Sally Falk Moore’s career and contribution to the field of anthropology at large, with a specific focus on her work in Tanzania and in legal anthropology – and especially regarding the transfer of land rights… [it] remains a brilliant demonstration of the ways in which anthropologists can mediate the tension between the ambition to account for situations in process, and the temporal ‘impossibilities’ that arise from the need to do so through their comparison."