Anthropology of Violence and Conflict (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

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. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction: violent imaginaries and violent practices......Page 12 The violence in identity......Page 36 Violence as everyday practice and imagination......Page 58 Socio-cosmological contexts and forms of violence: war, vendetta, duels and suicide among the Yukpa of north-western Venezuela......Page 60 The interpretation of violent worldviews: cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean......Page 87 The enactment of 'tradition': Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis......Page 108 Violence and conflict......Page 132 Violence and culture: anthropological and evolutionary-psychological reflections on inter-group conflict in southern Ethiopia......Page 134 Violent events in the Western Apache past: ethnohistory and ethno-ethnohistory......Page 154 Violence in war......Page 170 When silence makes history: gender and memories of war violence from Somalia......Page 172 A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka......Page 187 Predicament of war: Sarajevo experiences and ethics of war......Page 208 Index......Page 236 The study of wars in Sarajevo and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. This book develops a method of cross-cultural analysis. 'Violence', in its everyday usage, shares meaning with a term - 'violate' - which is etymologically derived from it.