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In this volume composed of several cross-cultural case studies in deviance, the editors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed new light on the subject. Anthropologists have tended to avoid studying deviance as a phenomena in and of itself, concentrating instead on particular sorts of deviance such as sorcery, alcoholism, and suicide. An anthropology of deviance is likely to create new models, which challenge many of the sociological assumptions currently used to interpret and understand deviance. Deviance presents the results of fieldwork in the Arctic, the West Indies, Africa, and the Far East in individual ethnographic essays. This unique book improves not only our understanding of deviant behavior, but of sociocultural order as well.
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Synopsis
This volume's cross-cultural case studies show how an anthropological comparative study can shed new light on the subject of deviance.
Synopsis
In this volume composed of several cross-cultural case studies in deviance, the editors show how an anthropological comparative study can shed new light on the subject. Anthropologists have tended to avoid studying deviance as a phenomena in and of itself, concentrating instead on particular sorts of deviance such as sorcery, alcoholism, and suicide. An anthropology of deviance is likely to create new models, which challenge many of the sociological assumptions currently used to interpret and understand deviance. Deviance presents the results of fieldwork in the Arctic, the West Indies, Africa, and the Far East in individual ethnographic essays. This unique book improves not only our understanding of deviant behavior, but of sociocultural order as well.
About the Author
MORRIS FREILICH is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University.DOUGLAS RAYBECK is Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College.JOEL SAVISHINSKY is Professor of Anthropology at Ithaca College.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Anthropology of Deviance
Models for Cross-Cultural Research
Smart Rules and Proper Rules: A Journey Through Deviance by Morris Freilich
Hard versus Soft Deviance: Anthropology and Labeling Theory by Douglas Raybeck
Free Shows and Cheap Thrills: Staged Deviance in the Arctic and the Bahamas by Joel S. Savishinsky
Ethnographic Essays
Swaziland: Witchcraft and Deviance by Laurel Rose
Female Violence Against Related Children: Child Abuse as a Modern Form of Deviance in Kenya by Philip L. Kilbride
The "Voice" of the Despicable: Deviance, Speaking and Power in Yemeni Tribal Society by Steven C. Caton
Deviant Careers: The Hijra of India by Serena Nanda
Taiwan: Gangsters or Good Guys? by Thomas Shaw
Faeroe Islands: Clowning, Drama, and Distortion by Dennis Gaffin
Coda
Bibliography
Index