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Violence in War and Peace An Anthology

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ISBN-10: 0631223495

ISBN-13: 9780631223498

Edition: 2004

Authors: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Philippe Bourgois

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Violence in War and Peace is a collection of readings that examine social and literary theories of violence and social epidemiological approaches to violence. The book is edited by two of anthropology's most thoughtful voices on this subject.
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Book details

List price: $68.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.70" wide x 9.70" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Sense of Violence
Conquest and Colonialism
From Heart of Darkness
Culture of Terror-Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture
From Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide
Tribal Warfare
From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass
The Holocaust
Right of Death and Power Over Life
The Gray Zone
From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre
From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began
The Politics of Communal Violence
From "Hellhounds"
From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Why do People Kill?
Behavioral Study of Obedience
Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
Why did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor
The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars
Talking Terror
Bodies, Death and Silence
Living in a State of Fear
Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children
The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War
On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King
The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11
Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/1l
Violence and Political Resistance
Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth
From On Violence
Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence
Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp
Peace Time Crimes: Everyday Violence
Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege
Symbolic Violence
Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death
On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below
Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua
"The Lower Classes Smell," from The Road to Wigan Pier
U.S. Inner City Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence
Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto
Gendered Violence
Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain
From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War
Gender and Symbolic Violence
The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape
Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks
Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
Torture
From The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
From Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms
The Treatment of Children in the 'Dirty War'