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Emiliano J. Buis examines the sources of classical Greece to challenge both the state-centeredness of mainstream international legal history and the omnipresence of war and excessive violence in ancient times. Making ample use of epigraphic as well as literary, rhetorical, and historiographical sources, the book offers the first widespread account of the narrative foundations of the (il)legality of warfare in the classical Hellenic world. In a clear yet sophisticated manner, Buis convincingly proves that the traditionally neglected study of the performance of ancient Greek poleis can contribute to a better historical understanding of those principles of international law underlying the practices and applicable rules on the use of force and the conduct of hostilities

"Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of 'civil society' include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist concept? Conversely, does feminism need the concept of civil society? This important volume offers both a revised gendered history of civil society and a program for making it more egalitarian in the future. An interdisciplinary group of internationally known authors investigates the relationship between public and private in the discourses and practices of civil societies; the significance of the family for the project of civil society; the relation between civil society, the state, and different forms of citizenship; and the complex connection between civil society, gendered forms of protest and nongovernmental movements. While often critical of historical instantiations of civil society, all the authors nonetheless take seriously the potential inherent in civil society, particularly as it comes to influence global politics. They demand, however, an expansion of both the concept and project of civil society in order to make its political opportunities available to all."--Back cover

List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent -- Irfan Ahmad -- Chapter 1. Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and Classroom -- Hatsuki Aishima -- Chapter 2. Anthropology as an Experimental Mode of Inquiry -- Arpita Roy -- Chapter 3. Graphic Designs: On Constellational Writing, or a Benjaminian Response to Ingold's Critique of Ethnography -- Jeremy F. Walton -- Chapter 4. Out of Correspondence: Death, Dark Ethnography and the Need for Temporal Alienation and Objectification -- Patrice Ladwig -- Chapter 5. Commitment, Correspondence, and Fieldwork as Non-volitional Dwelling: A Weberian Critique -- Patrick Eisenlohr -- Chapter 6. A New Holistic Anthropology With Politics In -- Irfan Ahmad -- Afterword -- Tim Ingold -- Index --