Law and disorder in the postcolony / 
edited by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2006. 
 - x, 357 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Law and disorder in the postcolony: an introduction / John L. Comaro ff and Jean Comaroff -- The mute and the unspeakable: political subject ivity, violent, crime, and "the sexual thing" in a South African mining community / Rosalind C. Morris -- "I came to sabotage your reasoning!" : violence and resignifications of justice in Brazil / Teresa P.R. Cald eira -- Death squads and democracy in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper- Hughes -- Some notes on disorder in the Indonesian postcolony / Patrici a Spyer -- Witchcraft and the limits of the law: Cameroon and South Afr ica / Peter Geschiere -- The ethics of illegality in the Chad Basin / J anet Roitman -- Criminal obsessions, after foucault: postcoloniality, p olicing, and the metaphysics of disorder / Jean Comaroff and John L. Co maroff -- On politics as a form of expenditure / Achille Mbembe -- Cont ributors -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226114090 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226114095 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006-006541 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Crime--Developing countries.<br/>Violence--Developing countries.<br/>Democratization--Developing countries.<br/>Postcolonialism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Developing countries--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>364.97124