Life and Words
Subtitle: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
Contributors: Stanley Cavell (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780520247451
Subjects: Violence in Society; Violence; India; Crimes against; Social Science; Sociology; ASIA; Riots; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Gender Studies; 20th century; History; Sikhs
First sentence: IT SO HAPPENS THAT FOR MANY YEARS NOW I have been engaged in thinking and writing about violence and asking what kind of work anthropology does in shaping the object we have come to call violence.