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Peace-making and the imagination : Papua New Guinea perspectives / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.
Van Pelt Library HN932.Z9 S628 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strathern, Andrew.
- Series:
- New approaches to peace and conflict
- New approaches to peace and conflict series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protracted conflicts (Military science)--Papua New Guinea.
- Protracted conflicts (Military science).
- Violence--Papua New Guinea.
- Violence.
- Reconciliation.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 269 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Revenge in response to violence risks the escalation of conflict. Andrew Strathern and Pamela J Stewart argue that in communities where violence must instead be paid for through compensation, violent conflict can be contained. Peace-making and the Imagination explores the balance between revenge and compensation in the peace-making process.
- With primary reference to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and comparisons with cases from Africa, Pakistan and other arenas of tribal social formations, the authors explore how rituals - wealth disbursement, oath taking, sacrifice, formal apologies - are often used as a means of averting or transcending acts of revenge after violence.
- Compensation - and its broader ethos of reciprocal exchange relations - enables peace-making by reframing violent acts and reducing the influence of terror in social life.
- Peace-making and the Imagination presents a thoughtful and creative, approach to the transformation of violent conflict. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Terror and violence in imagination and practice 1
- Chapter 2 Dimensions of violence: revenge and sorcery (Mount Hagen, PNG) 24
- Chapter 3 Warfare and peace-making: comparative histories 49
- Chapter 4 Escalations and complexities: early elections 75
- Chapter 5 Escalations and complexities: turns of history 105
- Chapter 6 The problems of peace-makers: intermediate sovereigns 138
- Chapter 7 Transcending violence: the place of ritual 165
- Chapter 8 Conclusions and comparisons 190
- Chapter 9 Envoi: three themes beyond the local 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780702239083
- 0702239089
- OCLC:
- 711803200
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