Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

The study of wars in Sarajevo and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. This book develops a method of cross-cultural analysis.

List of contents

1 Introduction: violent imaginaries and violent practices 2 The violence in identity Violence as everyday practice and imagination 3 Socio-cosmological contexts and forms of violence: war, vendetta, duels and suicide among the Yukpa of north-western Venezuela 4 The interpretation of violent worldviews: cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean 5 The enactment of ‘tradition’: Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis Violence and conflict 6 Violence and culture: anthropological and revolutionary-psychological reflections on inter-group conflict in southern Ethiopia 7 Violent events in the Western Apache past: ethnohistory and ethno-ethnohistory Violence in war 8 When silence makes history: gender and memories of war violence from Somalia 9 A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka 10 Predicament of war: Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war

About the author

Bettina E. Schmidt and Ingo W. Schroeder are both Research Associates at the Department of Anthropology, University of Marburg, Germany.

Summary

The study of wars in Sarajevo and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. This book develops a method of cross-cultural analysis.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bettina Schmidt (Editor), Schmidt Bettina (Editor), Ingo Schroeder (Editor), Schroeder Ingo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2001
• EAN: 9780415229050
• ISBN: 978-0-415-22905-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 600 g
• Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Social and cultural anthropology, Violence and abuse in society, Armed Conflict