Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. Most importantly this volume uses the anthropology of violence as a tool to help in the possible prevention of violence and conflict in the world today.
Author(s): Bettina E. Schmidt, Ingo W. Schroder
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 240
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: violent imaginaries and violent practices......Page 12
The violence in identity......Page 36
Violence as everyday practice and imagination......Page 58
Socio-cosmological contexts and forms of violence: war, vendetta, duels and suicide among the Yukpa of north-western Venezuela......Page 60
The interpretation of violent worldviews: cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean......Page 87
The enactment of 'tradition': Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis......Page 108
Violence and conflict......Page 132
Violence and culture: anthropological and evolutionary-psychological reflections on inter-group conflict in southern Ethiopia......Page 134
Violent events in the Western Apache past: ethnohistory and ethno-ethnohistory......Page 154
Violence in war......Page 170
When silence makes history: gender and memories of war violence from Somalia......Page 172
A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka......Page 187
Predicament of war: Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war......Page 208
Index......Page 236
