The practice of war
Subtitle: production, reproduction and communication of armed violence
By: edited by Aparna Rao, Michael Bollig and Monika Böck ; [with an introduction by Elisabeth Colson].
Contributors: Rao, Aparna.; Bollig, Michael.; Böck, Monika.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781845452803
Subjects: War.; War and society.; Violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The practice of war / Elisabeth Colson; title: pt. 1: Changing qualities of violence: case studies from Africa. 'We turned our enemies into baboons': warfare, ritual and pastoral identity among the Pokot of northern Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle; title: Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink; title: Catholics and cannibals: terror and healing in Tooro, western Uganda / Heike Behrend; title: pt. 2: Memory, trauma and redemption. Coming through slaughter: the Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 / Jan-Bart Gewald; title: Trauma, therapy and responsibility: psychology and war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari; title: 'I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise': the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure) / Mariam Abou Zahab; title: pt. 3: Organizing, encouraging and dissuading: the uses of kinship, gender and religion. Is war gendered? Issues in representing women and the Second World War / Elaine Martin; title: Judging by aesthetics: 'due care' in the management of 'collaboration' in the first Palestinian Intifada / Iris Jean-Klein; title: Islamist militancy in Kashmir: the case of the Lashkar-e Taiba / Yoginder Sikand; title: pt. 4: The inscription of war in mediated worlds. In the combat zone / Marilyn B. Young; title: 'Virtual' discourse and the creation and disruption of social networks: observations on the war in Kashmir in cyberspace / Aparna Rao ... [et al.]; title: Martyrs, victims, friends and foes: internet representations by Palestinian islamists / Henner Kirchner; title: Mapping a conflict in cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW / Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg; title: pt. 5: Peace building at the crossroads: appropriations of war, ambivalences of interest. Violence and peace processes / John Darby.