Meanings of Violence - A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Sommario

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

Info autore

Göran Aijmer University of Gothenburg Jon Abbink Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Jon Abbink (Editore), Göran Aijmer (Editore)
• Editore: Routledge
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2000
• EAN: 9781859734353
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-435-3
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 438 g
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali