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Meanings of Violence - A Cross-Cultural Perspective

English · Hardback

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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

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Göran Aijmer University of Gothenburg Jon Abbink Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

Product details

Assisted by Jon Abbink (Editor), Göran Aijmer (Editor)
Publisher Routledge
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.05.2000
 
EAN 9781859734353
ISBN 978-1-85973-435-3
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 145 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
Weight 438 g
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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