Comments on: RMAP has a posse (and so does NPS) /2007/10/19/rmap-has-a-posse-and-so-does-nps/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: John /2007/10/19/rmap-has-a-posse-and-so-does-nps/comment-page-1/#comment-130690 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:23:19 +0000 /2007/10/19/rmap-has-a-posse-and-so-does-nps/#comment-130690 “In both cases large bureaucratically organized institutions plant themselves in fluid contexts, which often results in a solidification of previous kinships practices.”

Sounds remarkably like the impact of indirect rule in accord with “customary law” that accompanied British and similar forms of colonization. Has anyone been doing comparative studies of how this works in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries?

P.S. Can anyone tell me why, while comments appear in the column to the left, clicking on them leads to a truncated version of the original post and that’s all in the case of the ongoing anthropologist in Iraq discussions?

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