Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building
ISBN: 9780812205893
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Treason -- Cross-cultural studies; Treason -- Moral and ethical aspects; Traitors -- Cross-cultural studies;

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.


Sharika Thiranagama teaches anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York and is author of In My Mother's House: The Intimacy of War in Sri Lanka, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tobias Kelly is Senior Lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and author of This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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