Bettina Schmidt / Ingo Schroeder (eds.)

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

Herausgeber: Schmidt, Bettina; Schroeder, Ingo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF VIOLENCE? 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 Violence and Conflict offers a timely contribution to this growing area of anthropological research. The authors provide a balanced approach to the causes of violence and the human experience behind it, examining how violent conflict is often represented differently by perpetrators, 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 importance of viewing contemporary violence as grounded in long-term antagonistic processes. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Africa and the recent civil strife in Sri Lanka, Albania and the former Yugoslavia, this volume examines well-known conflicts, past and present, and provides ample evidence of the fact that violence is never an isolated event. All conflict is reliant on perpetrators, victims and witnesses. The authors all agree on the dialectical nature of violence; conflict is both imagined and performed, and this duality is crucial when examining the nature of violent conflict. By providing an anthropological perspective on this important subject, this volume is a crucial addition to the literature of violence and warfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780415229067
• ISBN-10: 0415229065
• Artikelnr.: 21547682

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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