Death Squad
Subtitle: The Anthropology of State Terror (Ethnography of Political Violence)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780812217117
Subjects: Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; State-sponsored terrorism; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Death squads; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Anthropology - Cultural; Political Science-Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Political Science-Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Terrorism; Anthropology - General; Human Services; Human rights; Political persecution
First sentence: State violence, especially the kind that circumambulates the law, that transgresses the law from within (questioning thus the hegemonic discourse of the state as public interest), that violence that materializes frequently in the assassinations of death squads, the torture of detainees, the disappearance of victims, and other like technologies of terror - such violence, simultaneously public and secret, is deeply wrapped in fictional plots and phantasmatic images.