ISBN:
0-415-22906-5
,
978-0-415-22906-7
,
0-415-22905-7 /Hb.
,
978-0-415-22905-0 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 229 Seiten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
Keywords:
Gewalt Kulturkonflikt
;
Konflikt, sozialer
;
Tagungsbericht
Abstract:
Violence is a key feature of human social relations, yet has received comparatively little attention from social scientists. With increasing levels of conflict and violence in the modern world, Anthropology of Cionece and Conflict offers a timely contribution to this growing area of anthropological research The authors provide a balanced approach to the cases of violence and the humam experience behind it, examining how violent conflict is often represented differently ba perpertrators, victims and observers, as well as by winners and losers in war. To what extent are the conditions that lead to conflicts commonly experienced across cultures?From each discussion emerges the imporance of viewing contemporary violence as grouded in long-term, antagonistic processes. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Africa and the recent civil strife in Si Lanka, Albania and the former Yugoslavia, this volume examines well-known conflicts, past and present, and provides ample evidence of the fact thtat violence is never an isolated event. All conflict is reliant on perpertrators, victims and witnesses. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : violent imaginaries and violent practices / Ingo W. Schröder and Bettina E. Schmidt; The violence in identity / Glenn Bowman. Violence as everyday practice and imagination. Socio-cosmological contexts, and forms of violence : war, vendetta, duels and suicide among the Yukpa of north-western Venezuela / Ernst Halbmayer; The interpretation of violent worldviews : cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean / Bettina E. Schmidt; The enactment of 'tradition' : Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers. Violence and conflict. Violence and culture : anthropological and evolutionary -psychological reflections on inter-group conflict in southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink; Violent events in the western Apache past : ethnohistory and ethno-ethnohistory / Ingo W. Schröder. Violence in war. When silence makes history : gender and memories of war violence from Somalia / Francesca Declich; A turning point? : from civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka / Peter Kloos; Predicament of war : Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war / Ivana Macek -- Index
Note:
"[...]workshop 'Worldviews and Violence' at Frankfurt" (Preface and Seite 173)
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