Death squad
Subtitle: the anthropology of state terror
By: edited by Jeffrey A. Sluka.
Contributors: Sluka, Jeffrey A.
Series: The ethnography of political violence
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Terrorism; State-sponsored terrorism; Death squads; Human rights; Political persecution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : State terror and anthropology / Jeffrey A. Sluka; title: A fictional reality : paramilitary death squads and the construction of state terror in Spain / Begoña Aretxaga; title: Trials by fire : dynamics of terror in Punjab and Kashmir / Cynthia Keppley Mahmood; title: State terror in the netherworld : disappearance and reburial in Argentina / Antonius C.G.M. Robben; title: The homogenizing effects of state-sponsored terrorism : the case of Guatemala / Frank M. Afflitto; title: "For God and Ulster" : the culture of terror and loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka; title: Ninjas, nanggalas, monuments, and Mossad manuals : an anthropology of Indonesian state terror in East Timor / George J. Aditjondro; title: Murdered or martyred? Popular evaluations of violent death in the Muslim separatist movement in the Philippines / Thomas M. McKenna; title: Parents and their children in situations of terror : disappearances and special police activity in Punjab / Joyce Pettigrew; title: Conclusion : Death squads and wider complicities : dilemmas for the anthropology of violence / Kay B. Warren.