Violence

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.

ISBN 1847884164   Weight (grammes) 282 ISBN13 9781847884169 (What's this?)   Published in Oxford Publisher A & C Black Publishers Ltd   Series ISSN 1746-817 Imprint Berg Publishers   Series title Encounters Experience and Anthropological Knowledge Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Aug 2009   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 303.6   Spine width (mm) 13 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 176

		Introduction by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi		1
1		Written on My Body by Billie Jean Isbell		15
2		Bandh in Ahmedabad by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi		35
3		Fieldwork and Fear in Iraqi Kurdistan by Diane E. King		51
4		The Sense of War Songs by Bilinda Straight		71
5		Sleeping with One Eye Open by Kristen Drybread		79
6		A Hell of a Party by Brenda Maiale		97
7		Arriving in Jewish Buenos Aires by Natasha Zaretsky		107
8		Dreamwork and Punishment in Lebanon by John Borneman		119
9		Unwelcomed and Unwelcoming Encounters by Annarose Pandey		135
10		Guide to Further Reading by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi		145
		Bibliography		157
		Index		163

Compelling, riveting reading that will prove important to researchers. J.B. Wolford, CHOICE Magazine

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