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Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Specters of Treason
• 1. Xiconhoca: Mozambique's Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor / Lars Buur
• 2. Denunciatory Practices and the Constitutive Role of Collaboration in the Bangladesh War / Nayanika Mookherjee
• 3. Intimacy, Loyalty, and State Formation: The Specter of the "Anti-National" / Richard W. Whitecross
• 4. Traitors, Terror, and Regime Consolidation on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits: "Revolutionaries" and "Reactionaries" from 1949 to 1956 / Julia C. Strauss
• 5. Betraying Trust and the Elusive Nature of Ethnicity in Burundi / Simon Turner
• 6. In Praise of Traitors: Intimacy, Betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil Community / Sharika Thiranagama
• 7. Treason and Contested Moralities in a Coloured Township, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen
• 8. In a Treacherous State: The Fear of Collaboration Among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly
• 9. The Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors? / Kamran Rastegar
• 10. The Man in the White Raincoat: Betrayal and the Historian's Task / Istvan Rev
• Afterword: Questions of Judgment / Stephan Feuchtwang.

Contributors:

Thiranagama, Sharika

Kelly, Tobias

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Treason — Cross-cultural studies

Treason — Moral and ethical aspects

Traitors — Cross-cultural studies

Treason

Traitors

Genres:

Cross-cultural studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

vi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

JC328 .T73 2010

ISBNs:

9780812242133 (alk. paper)
0812242130 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009018800

OCLC Numbers:

320524807