Violence / edited by Neil L. Whitehead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitehead, Neil L.

Series:

School of American Research advanced seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Cross-cultural studies.

Violence.

Victims of crimes.

Victims of crimes--Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : School of American Research ; Oxford : James Currey, [2004]

Contents:

1 Introduction: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Poetics of Violent Practice / Neil L. Whitehead 3

2 Violence, Culture, and the Indonesian Public Sphere: Reworking the Geertzian Legacy / Kenneth M. George 25

3 On the Poetics of Violence / Neil L. Whitehead 55

4 Deadly Images: King Sacrifice, President Habyarimana, and the Iconography of Pregenocidal Rwandan Political Literature / Christopher C. Taylor 79

5 Interpreting Violence: Reflections on West African Wars / Stephen Ellis 107

6 Before the Law: The Narrative of the Unconscious in Basque Political Violence / Begona Aretxaga 125

7 The Poetics of Genocidal Practice: Violence under the Khmer Rouge / Alex Hinton 157

8 Disco-very: Anthropology, Nationalist Thought, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, and an Uncertain Descent into the Ordinary / Pradeep Jeganathan 185

9 True Crime / Mark Seltzer 203

10 The Tomorrow of Violence / Carolyn Nordstrom 223

11 Confessional Performances: Perpetrators' Testimonies to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Leigh A. Payne 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-297) and index.

ISBN:

1930618514

1930618522

OCLC:

56033203