Cultural shaping of violence : victimization, escalation, response / edited by Myrdene Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Myrdene, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Cross-cultural studies.

Violence.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

330 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2004]

Summary:

Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark society's contemporary condition. Sept. 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. "Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. The book's 27 chapters, researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities, document violence in 22 distinct cultural settings in 17 nation-states on five continents. Internal to each society, a number of sites of violence may thrive, from the domestic sphere to social institutions and political arenas. In whatever site or guise, violence reverberates throughout the social fabric and beyond.

Contents:

I Introduction: The Careless Feeding of Violence in Culture / Myrdene Anderson, Cara Richards 1

Part 1 Children and Women First? Violence Close to Home 9

II Violence Absorbed: Lives of Children in an American City / Linda McDonald 11

III School Power, Children's Play, and the Timing of Recess Violence / Anna Richman Beresin 18

IV Growing Up with Violence in Northern Ireland: Making Meaning of Institutionalized Violence / Linda J. Rogers 24

V Believed and Not Believed: Community Reaction to Rape in Mexico and the U.S. / Cathy Winkler 35

VI "Here the Cock Does Not Crow, For He Is Not the Lord of the Land": Machismo, Insecurity, and Male Violence in Brazil / Sarah Hautzinger 49

VII Transformations in Domestic Violence and Conflict Resolution within a Midwestern U.S. Nuer Refugee Community / Jon D. Holtzman 58

Part 2 Social Regulation of Anti-Social Behavior 65

VIII Violent Crime and the Loss of Fathers: Beyond the Long Arm / Wade C. Mackey 67

IX The Godmother as Mediator: Constraining Violence in a Zapotec Village of Oaxaca, Mexico / Nicole Sault 82

X Honor and Violence in a Brazilian Slum: Gendered Checks and Balances in the Politics of Everyday Life / Claudia Fonseca 95

XI Reprimand and Respect, Love and Fear in Experiences of Violence in Colombia / Myriam Jimeno 110

XII The Paradox of Politeness / Dov Cohen, Joe Vandello 119

Part 3 Institutional Architectures Mediating and Memorializing Violence 133

XIII Violence by the Book: Redefining the Legitimate Use of Force in Municipal Policing / Steven V. Lutes, Michael J. Sullivan 135

XIV Fortunes of War: From Primitive Warfare to Nuclear Policy in Anthropological Thought / Barton C. Hacker 147

XV Combat, Emotions, and the "Enemy": Metaphors of Soldiering in a Unit of Israeli Infantry Reserves / Eyal Ben-Ari 165

XVI Being Broken in the Marines: The Social Construction of Belonging in the U.S. Marine Corps / Rhonda J. Moore 179

XVII Epistemic Violence, Smear-Campaigns, and Hit-Lists: Disappearing the Palestinians / Nada Elia 187

XVIII Violence Within and Against the Pacific / Katerina Teaiwa 193

XIX Liberation, De-Liberations, and Stallings, Or, Is the "Post"-Here Yet? / Nada Elia 199

Part 4 Escalating Ecologies of Perturbation 205

XX Violence in Madura: The Interplay of Resource, Culture, and History / Glenn Smith 207

XXI Ambivalent Exchanges: The Violence of Patronazgo in the Upper Amazon / Bartholomew Dean 214

XXII Taiwan's Consumerism, Gangs, and Violence / Charles Trappey 227

XXIII Intended Social Effects of a Culture of Impunity: The Case of Guatemala / Frank M. Afflitto 239

XXIV Political Violence and the Public Eye / Glen Perice 249

XXV Violence as Culture: "Educating" Political Prisoners in Romania / Gila Safran Naveh 258

XXVI The Moral Cycle of Egoistic and Altruistic Violence: A Century of Bloodshed in Colombia / Mario Fandino 268

Part 5 Loose Ends: Reflections and Epilogue 283

XXVII Reflections on the Saami at Loose Ends / Myrdene Anderson 285

XXVIII Epilogue: Denaturing Cultural Violence / Myrdene Anderson 292.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1557533458

1557533733

OCLC:

53932614