Violence
By: edited by Neil L. Whitehead.
Contributors: Whitehead, Neil L.
Series: School of American Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School of American Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Violence -- Cross-cultural studies.; Victims of crimes -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Description: "Can we understand violence not as evidence of cultural rupture but as a form of cultural expression itself? Ten prominent scholars engage this question across geographies as diverse at their theoretical positions, drawing on fieldwork in Indonesia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South America, Sri Lanka, Spain, and the United States. This research makes clear that within specific cultures, violent acts are expressions of cultural codes imbued with great meaning for both perpetrator and victim. Covering wide-ranging regimes of violence, these essays examine various aspects of state violence, legitimate and illegitimate forms of violence, the impact of anticipatory violence on daily life, and its effects long after the events themselves have passed. In the marginal spaces of global ethnoscapes, violence becomes a form of cultural affirmation and expression in the face of a loss of "tradition" and dislocations of ethnic communities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-297) and index.