ISBN:
0-85255-972-0
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978-0-85255-972-7
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0-85255-973-9 /Hb.
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978-0-85255-973-4 /Hb.
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1-930618-52-2
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978-1-930618-52-7
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1-930618-51-4 /Hb.
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978-1-930618-51-0 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
306 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [65]
Keywords:
Gewalt Opfer
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Kulturvergleich
Abstract:
Can we understand violence not as evidence of cultural rupture but as a form of cultural expression itself? Ten prominent scholars engage this question across geographies as diverse at their theoretical positions, in cases drawn from fieldwork in Indonesia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South America, Sri Lanka, Spain, and the United States. This research makes clear that within specific cultures, violent acts are expressions of cultural codes imbued with great meaning for both perpetrator and victim. "Unless the perpetrator`s view is part of our own understanding," editor Neil L. Whitehead observes, "how to address the sources of violence will escape us." Covering wide-ranging regimes of violence, these essays examine various aspects of state violence, legitimate and illegitimate forms of violence, the impact of anticipatory violence on daily life, and its effects long after the events themselves have passed. In the marginal spaces of global ethnoscapes, violence becomes a form of cultural affirmation and expression in the face of a loss of "tradition" and dislocations of ethnic communities.This book is dedicated to the memory of Begoña Aretxaga. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- Introduction: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Poetics of Violent Practice, Neil L. Whitehead -- Violence, Culture, and the Indonesian Public Sphere: Reworking the Geertzian Legacy, Kenneth M. George -- On the Poetics of Violence, Neil L. Whitehead -- Deadly Images: King Sacrifice, President Habyarimana, and the Iconography of Pregenocidal Rwandan Political Literature, Christopher C. Taylor -- Interpreting Violence: Reflections on West African Wars, Stephen Ellis -- Before the Law: The Narrative of the Unconscious in Basque Political Violence, Begoña Aretxaga -- The Poetics of Genocidal Practice: Violence under the Khmer Rouge, Alex Hinton -- Disco-very: Anthropology, Nationalist Thought, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, and an Uncertain Descent into the Ordinary, Pradeep Jeganathan -- True Crime, Mark Seltzer -- The Tomorrow of Violence, Carolyn Nordstrom -- Confessional Performances: Perpetrators` Testimonies to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Leigh A. Payne --References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 271-297"School of American Research advanced seminar Culture and Conflict: The Poetics of Violent Practice, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 28-May 2, 2002" (letzte Seite)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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