The Anthropology of violence
By: edited by David Riches.
Contributors: Riches, David.
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Violence -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Selected papers from a conference on "Violence as a Social Institution" held in St. Andrews, Scotland, in January, 1985.
Table of contents: title: The phenomenon of violence / David Riches; title: Insurrections in Spain / John Corbin; title: "Le Mal Court" / Elisabeth Copet-Rougier; title: The ritual use of violence / Suzette Heald; title: Images of cannibalism, death, and domination in a "non-violent" society / Joanna Overing; title: The beauty of violence / Brian Moeran; title: Honour, integrity, and the problem of violence in the Spanish bullfight / Garry Marvin; title: Fighting in an Australian Aboriginal supercamp / David McKnight; title: "Casuals," "terrace crews" and "fighting firms" / Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, and John Williams; title: Violence in rural Northern Ireland / Graham McFarlane; title: Violence and will / David Parkin.