Violence / edited by Neil L. Whitehead
- Bib ID:
- 3415621
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- Book
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- Description:
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- Santa Fe : School of American Research, c2004
- ix, 306 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1930618514
- 1930618522
- Series:
- School of American Research advanced seminar series.
- Summary:
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"Can we understand violence not as evidence of cultural rupture but as a form of cultural expression itself? Ten prominent scholars engage this question across geographies as diverse at their theoretical positions, drawing on fieldwork in Indonesia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South America, Sri Lanka, Spain, and the United States. This research makes clear that within specific cultures, violent acts are expressions of cultural codes imbued with great meaning for both perpetrator and victim. Covering wide-ranging regimes of violence, these essays examine various aspects of state violence, legitimate and illegitimate forms of violence, the impact of anticipatory violence on daily life, and its effects long after the events themselves have passed. In the marginal spaces of global ethnoscapes, violence becomes a form of cultural affirmation and expression in the face of a loss of "tradition" and dislocations of ethnic communities."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction : cultures, conflicts, and the poetics of violent practice / Neil L. Whitehead
- 2. Violence, culture, and the Indonesian public sphere : reworking the Geertzian legacy / Kenneth M. George
- 3. On the poetics of violence / Neil L. Whitehead
- 4. Deadly images : king sacrifice, President Habyarimana, and the iconography of pregenocidal Rwandan political literature / Christopher C. Taylor
- 5. Interpreting violence : reflections on West African wars / Stephen Ellis
- 6. Before the law : the narrative of the unconscious in Basque political violence / Begona Arelxaga
- 7. The poetics of genocidal practice : violence under the Khmer Rouge / Alex Hinton
- 8. Disco-very : anthropology, nationalist thought, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, and an uncertain descent into the ordinary / Pradeep Jeganathan
- 9. True crime / Mark Seltzer
- 10. The tomorrow of violence / Carolyn Nordstrom.
- 11. Confessional performances : perpetrators' testimonies to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Leigh A. Payne.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-297) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Whitehead, Neil L
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