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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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