Meanings of Violence - A Cross-Cultural Perspective

List of contents

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

About the author

Göran Aijmer University of Gothenburg Jon Abbink Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

Product details

• Assisted by: Jon Abbink (Editor), Göran Aijmer (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2000
• EAN: 9781859734353
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-435-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 221 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories