UID:
edocfu_9958894302002883
Format:
1 online resource (253 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-82708-3
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1-134-82709-1
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0-415-13218-5
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1-280-05009-8
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0-203-63386-5
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Content:
Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable in recent years, but what can such a term mean in the late twentieth century? Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, 'private' realm clearly separated in opposition to the state; nor should it be confined to the institutions of the 'voluntary' or 'no
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: political society and civil anthropology; Money, morality and modes of civil society among American Mormons; How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, or: civil society, the media and the quality of life; Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society: East Germany; The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland; Bringing civil society to an uncivilised place: citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier
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The social life of projects: importing civil society to AlbaniaCivic culture and Islam in urban Turkey; Gender, state and civil society in Jordan and Syria; The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia: assessment of an authentic solution; Community values and state cooptation: civil society in the Sichuan countryside; Making citizens in postwar Japan: national and local perspectives; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-63827-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-13219-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203633861
