Violence : ethnographic encounters / edited by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis.

Series:

Encounters--experience and anthropological knowledge

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Ethnology.

Political violence.

Ethnic conflict.

Physical Description:

xii, 164 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009.

Summary:

Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in shaping human experience and a central theme in anthropological study.

Violence: Ethnographic Encounters presents a set of vivid first-hand accounts of fieldwork experiences of violence. The examples range across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and illustrate instances of state terror, insurgency, communal violence, war, prison violence, class conflict, security measures and sexual violence.

How do these anthropologists come to know a place through such violent experience? Why do they not leave such scenes? What insights follow from such experience? Violence: Ethnographic Encounters offers readers a broad anthropological study of violence through personal encounters.

Contents:

1 Written on My Body / Billie Jean Isbell 15

2 Bandh in Ahmedabad / Parvis Gassem-Fachandi 35

3 Feldwork and Fear in Iragi Kurdistan / Diane E. King 51

4 The sense of War Songs / Bilinda Straight 71

5 Sleeping with One Eye Open / Kristen Drybread 79

6 A Hell of a Party / Brenda Maiale 97

7 Arriving in Jewish Buenos Aires / Natasha Zaretsky 107

8 Dreamwork and Punishment in Lebanon / John Zaretsky 119

9 Unwelcomed and Unwelcoming Encounters / Annarose Pandey 135

10 Guide to Further Reading / Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847884169

1847884164

9781847884176

1847884172

OCLC:

312416149