Introduction. Risk and hope: Daily life subversions of the norm -- Part 1. Framing of Norms and Illegalities, Theoretical to Ethnographic. Anthropological shades of grey: Informal norms and becoming (il)legal -- Methodological legalism -- On doing fieldwork, outspokenly: Ethics, money and antiquities illegal trade -- Part 2. Ethnographies of Illegalities and the Reframing of Norms and Margins. Street economies, illegality and rights in Antigua Guatemala -- Informal economies, illegal subjects: Roma and Senegalese traders in Rome -- Repositioning the edge: The resilience of wholesale vegetable markets in Benguet Upland Philippines -- Frontier justice: Making norms, negotiating authority and becoming responsible in Northern Madagascar's artisanal mining sector -- To legally beg or illegally work? Norms and illegality among asylum seekers in Hong Kong.
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"Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures"-- Provided by publisher.
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