Death squad : the anthropology of state terror / edited by Jeffrey A. Sluka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sluka, Jeffrey A.

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence

The ethnography of political violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Death squads.

Human rights.

Political persecution.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2000]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."--Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the Introduction -- Death Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. It brings together an international group of anthropologists who have done extensive research in areas marked by extreme forms of state violence and who have studied state terror from the perspective of victims and survivors. The book presents eight case studies from seven countries--Spain, India (Punjab and Kashmir), Argentina, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, and the Philippines--to demonstrate the cultural complexities and ambiguities of terror when viewed at the local level and from the participants' point of view. Contributors deal with such topics as the role of Loyalist death squads in the culture of terror in Northern Ireland, the three-tier mechanism of state terror in Indonesia, the complex role of religion in violence by both the state and insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, and the ways in which "disappearances" are used to destabilize and demoralize opponents of the state in Argentina, Guatemala, and India.

Contents:

Introduction : State terror and anthropology / Jeffrey A. Sluka

A fictional reality : paramilitary death squads and the construction of state terror in Spain / Begoña Aretxaga

Trials by fire : dynamics of terror in Punjab and Kashmir / Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

State terror in the netherworld : disappearance and reburial in Argentina / Antonius C.G.M. Robben

The homogenizing effects of state-sponsored terrorism : the case of Guatemala / Frank M. Afflitto

"For God and Ulster" : the culture of terror and loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka

Ninjas, nanggalas, monuments, and Mossad manuals : an anthropology of Indonesian state terror in East Timor / George J. Aditjondro

Murdered or martyred? Popular evaluations of violent death in the Muslim separatist movement in the Philippines / Thomas M. McKenna

Parents and their children in situations of terror : disappearances and special police activity in Punjab / Joyce Pettigrew

Conclusion : Death squads and wider complicities : dilemmas for the anthropology of violence / Kay B. Warren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Death squad.

ISBN:

9780812200485

0812200489

OCLC:

607365840

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Restricted for use by site license.