Death Squad
Subtitle: The Anthropology of State Terror (Ethnography of Political Violence)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780812235234
Subjects: Anthropology; Social welfare & social services; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; State-sponsored terrorism; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Political Anthropology; Political Terrorism; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Politics/International Relations; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Anthropology - Cultural; Terrorism; Anthropology - General; Human Services; Death squads
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.