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The practice of war : production, reproduction and communication of armed violence / edited by Aparna Rao, Michael Bollig and Monika Böck ; [with an introduction by Elisabeth Colson].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War.
- War and society.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The practice of war / Elisabeth Colson
- pt. 1. Changing qualities of violence: case studies from Africa. 'We turned our enemies into baboons': warfare, ritual and pastoral identity among the Pokot of northern Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle
- Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink
- Catholics and cannibals: terror and healing in Tooro, western Uganda / Heike Behrend
- pt. 2. Memory, trauma and redemption. Coming through slaughter: the Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 / Jan-Bart Gewald
- Trauma, therapy and responsibility: psychology and war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari
- 'I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise': the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure) / Mariam Abou Zahab
- pt. 3. Organizing, encouraging and dissuading: the uses of kinship, gender and religion. Is war gendered? Issues in representing women and the Second World War / Elaine Martin
- Judging by aesthetics: 'due care' in the management of 'collaboration' in the first Palestinian Intifada / Iris Jean-Klein
- Islamist militancy in Kashmir: the case of the Lashkar-e Taiba / Yoginder Sikand
- pt. 4. The inscription of war in mediated worlds. In the combat zone / Marilyn B. Young
- 'Virtual' discourse and the creation and disruption of social networks: observations on the war in Kashmir in cyberspace / Aparna Rao ... [et al.]
- Martyrs, victims, friends and foes: internet representations by Palestinian islamists / Henner Kirchner
- Mapping a conflict in cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW / Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg
- pt. 5. Peace building at the crossroads: appropriations of war, ambivalences of interest. Violence and peace processes / John Darby.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1845452801
- 9781845452803
- OCLC:
- 173089287
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