Meanings of Violence (eBook, ePUB)

A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Redaktion: Abbink, Jon; Aijmer, Göran

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000323993
• Artikelnr.: 60032483

Autorenporträt

Göran Aijmer University of Gothenburg Jon Abbink Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Violation and Violence as Cultural Phenomena, Introduction: The
Idiom of Violence in Imagery and Discourse 1 The Enigma of Senseless
Violence 2 'Criminals by Instinct': On the 'Tragedy' of Social Structure
and the 'Violence' of lndividual Creativity 3 Ritual, Violence and Social
Order: An Approach to Spanish Bullfighting 4 Restoring the Balance:
Violence and Culture Among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia 5 Tolerating the
Intolerable: Cattle Raiding Among the Kuria of Kenya 6 Rethinking
'Violence' in Chinese Culture 7 Butchering Fish and Executing Criminals:
Public Executions and the Meanings of Violence in Late Imperial and Modem
China, 8 The 'Tradition of Violence' in Colombia: Material and Symbolic
Aspects