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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493691503321

Titolo

Order and disorder [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological perspectives / / [edited by] Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2007

ISBN

1-282-62656-6

9786612626562

0-85745-002-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Benda-BeckmannKeebet von

PirieFernanda <1964->

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Political anthropology

Order

Social conflict

Political violence

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume developed from a conference held at and funded by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 26 and 27 November 2004"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie -- Order and the evocation of heritage : representing quality in the French biscuit trade / Simon Roberts -- Pride, honour, individual and collective violence : order in a 'lawless' village / Aimar Ventsel -- Order, individualism and responsibility : contrasting dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau / Fernanda Pirie -- Vigilante groups and the state in West Africa / Tilo Grätz -- Imposing new concepts of order in rural Morocco : violence and transnational challenges to local order / Bertram Turner -- Law, ritual and order / Peter Just -- The disorders of an order : state and society in Ottoman and Turkish trabzon / Michael E. Meeker -- Anthropological order and political disorder / Jonathan Spencer.

Sommario/riassunto

Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to



preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume, highlight its complex and contested nature. Elaborate displays of order seem necessary to legitimate the institutionalisation of violence by military and legal establishments, yet violent behavi

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464623103321

Autore

Rubdy Rani

Titolo

English in the World [[electronic resource] ] : Global Rules, Global Roles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006

ISBN

1-4411-1849-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SaraceniMario

Disciplina

420

Soggetti

English language -- Foreign countries

English language -- Standardization

English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers

English language - Foreign speakers - Study and teaching - Foreign countries

English language - Standardization

English language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Conceptualizing EIL; An Interview with Tom McArthur; Global Intelligibility and Local Diversity: Possibility or Paradox?; English as a Lingua Franca in the Expanding Circle: What it Isn''t; Defining the ''Successful Bilingual Speaker'' of English; Which Model of English: Native-speaker, Nativized or Lingua Franca?; World Englishes or English as a Lingua Franca? A View from the Perspective of Non-Anglo Englishes; Standard English in the World; Part II: Pedagogical Implications of EIL; EIL Curriculum



Development

A Multi-dimensional Approach to Teaching English for the WorldTeaching EIL - Teaching International or Intercultural English? What Teachers Should Know; Standard Englishes, Pedagogical Paradigms and their Conditions of (Im)possibility; English in the World does not mean English Everywhere: The Case for Multilingualism in the ELT/ESL Profession; An Interview with Suresh Canagarajah; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; P; R; T; U; W

Sommario/riassunto

English today is a truly global language which plays an important role in international communication, trade, diplomacy, sport, science, technology and culture. One of the consequences of the global predominance of English is that non-native speakers of E