Ebook: Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building
Author: Sharika Thiranagama, Tobias Kelly
- Tags: Traitors -- Cross-cultural studies, Treason -- Moral and ethical aspects, Treason -- Cross-cultural studies, Social Sciences, Social Structures Social Interaction Population Social Anthropology, Sociology, Soziale Probleme Sozialdienste Versicherungen, Traitors, Treason
- Series: EBL-Schweitzer
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- City: Philadelphia
- Language: English
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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.