Anthropology of Violence and ConflictBettina Schmidt, Ingo Schroeder Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. Most importantly this volume uses the anthropology of violence as a tool to help in the possible prevention of violence and conflict in the world today. |
Contents
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The violence in identity | 25 |
Violence as everyday practice and imagination | 47 |
Sociocosmological contexts and forms of violence war vendetta duels and suicide among the Yukpa of northwestern Venezuela | 49 |
The interpretation of violent worldviews cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean | 76 |
The enactment of tradition Albanian constructions of identity violence and power in times of crisis | 97 |
Violence and conflict | 121 |
Violence and culture anthropological and evolutionarypsychological reflections on intergroup conflict in southern Ethiopia | 123 |
Violent events in the Western Apache past ethnohistory and ethnoethnohistory | 143 |
Violence in war | 159 |
When silence makes history Gender and memories of war violence from Somalia | 161 |
A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka | 176 |
Predicament of war Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war | 197 |
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