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Record Nr.

UNINA9910305558703321

Titolo

Civil society : challenging western models / / edited by Chris Hann and Elizabeth Dunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-82708-3

1-134-82709-1

0-415-13218-5

1-280-05009-8

0-203-63386-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Altri autori (Persone)

HannC. M. <1953->

DunnElizabeth

Disciplina

306.2

301

Soggetti

Civil society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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