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Harmony ideology: justice and control in a Zapotec mountain village / Laura Nader

Por: Nader, Laura [autor/a].
Tipo de material: Libro impreso(a) Libro impreso(a) Editor: Stanford, California, United States: Stanford University Press, 1990Descripción: xxiii, 343 páginas : retratos ; 23 centímetros.ISBN: 0804718105; 9780804718103.Tema(s): Sistemas políticos | Zapotecas | Administración de justicia penal | Control social | Situación legal | Estructura socialDescriptor(es) geográficos: Oaxaca (México) Clasificación: 306.28097274 / N33 Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía: páginas 325-335 e índice: páginas 337-343 Número de sistema: 2451Contenidos:Mostrar Resumen:
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The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than a good fight'. Why? This study of the legal system of the Zapotec village of Talea suggests that compromise and, more generally, harmony are strategies used by colonized groups to protect themselves from encroaching powerholders or strategies the colonizers use to defend themselves against organized subordinates. Harmony models are present, despite great organizational and cultural differences, in many parts of the world. However, the basic components of harmony ideology are the same everywhere: an emphasis on conciliation, recognition that resolution of conflict is inherently good and that its reverse - continued conflict or controversy - is bad, a view of harmonious behaviour as more civilized than disputing behaviour, the belief that consensus is of greater survival value than controversy. The book's central thesis is that harmony ideology in Talea today is both a product of nearly 500 years of colonial encounter and a strategy for resisting the state's political and cultural hegemony.
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Incluye bibliografía: páginas 325-335 e índice: páginas 337-343

Preface.. 1. Introduction.. Part I. Social Organisation and Control.. 2. The Experience of Place.. 3. Order Through Social Organization: Stratifying, Leveling, and Linking.. 4. Grievances and Remedy Agents: Comparisons in Social Organization.. Part II. Court Users.. 5. Setting the Law Into Motion.. 6. Deciding Cases: They Make Your Head Hot.. 7. Court style: A Bad Agreement Is Better than a Good Fight.. 8. Dissecting Cases to Understand Court Users.. 9. Over the Mountain to the District Court.. Part III. The Substance of Legal Encounters.. 10. Rank, Intimacy, and Control in Cross-Sex Complaints.. 11. Violence and Harmony in Same-Sex Litigation.. 12. Individual and Community Interest in Property Cases.. 13. Contests About Governance.. Part IV. Connections.. 14. Harmony in Comparative Perspective. 15. Ethnography and the Construction of Theory.. References Cited.. Index.. Twelve pages of Photographs Follow

The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than a good fight'. Why? This study of the legal system of the Zapotec village of Talea suggests that compromise and, more generally, harmony are strategies used by colonized groups to protect themselves from encroaching powerholders or strategies the colonizers use to defend themselves against organized subordinates. Harmony models are present, despite great organizational and cultural differences, in many parts of the world. However, the basic components of harmony ideology are the same everywhere: an emphasis on conciliation, recognition that resolution of conflict is inherently good and that its reverse - continued conflict or controversy - is bad, a view of harmonious behaviour as more civilized than disputing behaviour, the belief that consensus is of greater survival value than controversy. The book's central thesis is that harmony ideology in Talea today is both a product of nearly 500 years of colonial encounter and a strategy for resisting the state's political and cultural hegemony. eng

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