Bettina Schmidt / Ingo Schroeder (eds.)

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

Herausgeber: Schmidt, Bettina; Schroeder, Ingo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The study of wars in Sarajevo and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. This book develops a method of cross-cultural analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780415229050
• ISBN-10: 0415229057
• Artikelnr.: 21736209

Autorenporträt

Bettina E. Schmidt and Ingo W. Schroeder are both Research Associates at the Department of Anthropology, University of Marburg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: violent imaginaries and violent practices 2 The violence in
identity Violence as everyday practice and imagination 3 Socio-cosmological
contexts and forms of violence: war, vendetta, duels and suicide among the
Yukpa of north-western Venezuela 4 The interpretation of violent
worldviews: cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean 5 The
enactment of 'tradition': Albanian constructions of identity, violence and
power in times of crisis Violence and conflict 6 Violence and culture:
anthropological and revolutionary-psychological reflections on inter-group
conflict in southern Ethiopia 7 Violent events in the Western Apache past:
ethnohistory and ethno-ethnohistory Violence in war 8 When silence makes
history: gender and memories of war violence from Somalia 9 A turning
point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka 10 Predicament of war:
Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war