Global outlaws : crime, money, and power in the contemporary world /
"Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamic...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | California series in public anthropology ;
16. |
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Table of Contents:
- The war orphan
- The bombed-out shop
- Coconuts and cigarettes : some definitions
- The Gov'nor's red tractors
- Military takeovers (or, how to own a country)
- The untold story of the amputees
- Robber barons
- The border post
- a billion-dollar truck stop (going international)
- Romancing the stone : borders and businesspeople
- The washing machine : laundering, part one
- Diamonds and fish : going global
- Ports
- Drugs
- The cultures of criminals
- The cultures of cops
- The world-port
- The investment machine : laundering, part two
- Human cargo
- Post-terror : creating (the illusion of) security
- Conclusion.