Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

by Bettina Schmidt (Editor), Ingo Schroeder (Editor)

Overview

Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. Most importantly this volume uses the anthropology of violence as a tool to help in the possible prevention of violence and conflict in the world today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415229067
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/22/2001
Series:	European Association of Social Anthropologists
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bettina E. Schmidt and Ingo W. Schroeder are both Research Associates at the Department of Anthropology, University of Marburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: violent imaginaries and violent practices 2 The violence in identity Violence as everyday practice and imagination 3 Socio-cosmological contexts and forms of violence: war, vendetta, duels and suicide among the Yukpa of north-western Venezuela 4 The interpretation of violent worldviews: cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean 5 The enactment of ‘tradition’: Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis Violence and conflict 6 Violence and culture: anthropological and revolutionary-psychological reflections on inter-group conflict in southern Ethiopia 7 Violent events in the Western Apache past: ethnohistory and ethno-ethnohistory Violence in war 8 When silence makes history: gender and memories of war violence from Somalia 9 A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka 10 Predicament of war: Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war