ISBN:
0-520-21608-3
,
978-0-520-21608-2
,
978-0-520-21607-5 /Hb.
,
0-520-21607-5 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 379 Seiten
Keywords:
Gewalt Gewalt, sexuelle
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Konflikt, ethnischer
;
Bürgerkrieg
;
Psychologie
;
Männlichkeit
;
Ethnopsychologie
;
Beziehungen, interethnische
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Beziehungen, internationale
;
Anthropologie, politische
;
Nigeria
;
Sri Lanka
;
Indien
Abstract:
The essays in Violence and Subjectivity, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, Social Suffering, which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themselves and others when perpetrators, victims, and witnesses all come from the same social space.From civil wars and ethnic riots to governmental and medical interventions at a more bureaucratic level, the authors address not only those extreme situations guaranteed to occupy precious media minutes but also the more subtle violences of science and state. However particular and circumscribed the site of any fieldwork may be, today's ethnographer finds local identities and circumstances molded by state and transnational forces, including the media themselves. These authors contest a new political geography that divides the world into "violence-prone areas" and "peaceful areas" and suggest that such descriptions might themselves contribute to violence in the present global context. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman -- Violence-prone area or international transition? adding the role of outsiders in Balkan violence / Susan L. Woodward -- Violence and vision: the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman -- Circumcision, body, masculinity: the ritual wound and collective violence / Deepak Mehta -- Teach me how to be a man: an exploration of the definition of masculinity / Mamphela Ramphele -- On not becoming a "terrorist": problems of memory, agency, and community in Sri Lankan conflict / Jonathan Spencer -- The ground of all making: state violence, the family, and political activists / Pamela Reynolds -- Violence, suffering, Amman: the work of oracles in Sri Lanka's eastern war zone / Patricia Lawrence -- The act of witnessing: violence, poisonous knowledge, and subjectivity / Veena Das -- The violences of everyday life: the multiple forms and dynamics of social violence / Arthur Kleinman -- Body and space in a time of crisis: sterilization and resettlement during the emergency in Delhi / Emma Tarlo -- The quest for human organs and the violence of zeal / Margaret Lock -- Mayan multiculturalism and the violence of memories / Kay B. Warren -- Reconciliation and memory in postwar Nigeria / Murray Last -- Mood, moment, and mind / E. Valentine Daniel -- List of contributors -- Index
Note:
"The essays in this volume were first discussed in a seminar entitled 'Violence, Political Agency, and Self' in Delhi in April 1995" (Acknowledgements)
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