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Title Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 272 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Xiconhoca: Mozambique's ubiquitous post-independence traitor / Lars Buur -- Denunciatory practices and the constitutive role of collaboration in the Bangladesh War / Nayanika Mookherjee -- Intimacy, loyalty, and state formation: the specter of the "anti-national" / Richard W. Whitecross -- Traitors, terror, and regime consolidation on the two sides of the Taiwan straits: "revolutionaries" and "reactionaries" from 1949 to 1956 / Julia C. Strauss -- Betraying trust and the elusive nature of ethnicity in Burundi / Simon Turner -- In praise of traitors: intimacy, betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil community / Sharika Thiranagama -- Treason and contested moralities in a coloured township, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen -- In a treacherous state: the fear of collaboration among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly -- The glass agency: Iranian war veterans as heroes or traitors? / Kamran Rastegar -- The man in the white raincoat: betrayal and the historian's task / István Rev -- Afterword: questions of judgment / Stephan Feuchtwang
Summary This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank, revealing that treachery is a constant and essential part of the processes through which social and political order is reproduced
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Traitors -- Cross-cultural studies
Treason -- Moral and ethical aspects
Treason -- Cross-cultural studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Traitors
Treason
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Thiranagama, Sharika, editor.
Kelly, Tobias, editor.
LC no. 2009018800
ISBN 9780812205893
0812205898
0812222377
9780812222371