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Violence in War and Peace: An AnthologyISBN: 978-0-631-22349-8
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512 pages
November 2003, ©2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction: Making Sense of Violence (Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois).
Part I: Conquest and Colonialism.
1. From Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad).
2. Culture of Terror-Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture (Michael Taussig).
3. From Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Theodora Kroeber).
4. Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
5. Tribal Warfare (R. Brian Ferguson).
6. From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass (Robert J.Gordon).
Part II: The Holocaust.
7. Right of Death and Power Over Life (Michel Foucault).
8. The Gray Zone (Primo Levi).
9. From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt).
10. Initiation to Mass Murder: The Józefów Massacre (Christopher R. Browning).
11. From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski).
12. From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman).
Part III: The Politics of Communal Violence.
13. From "Hellhounds" (Leon F. Litwack).
14. From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (Liisa Malkki).
15. From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Philip Gourevitch).
Part IV: Why do People Kill?.
16. Behavioral Study of Obedience (Stanley Milgram).
17. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage (Renato Rosaldo).
18. Why did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor (Alexander Laban Hinton).
Part V: The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars.
19. Talking Terror (Michael Taussig).
20. Bodies, Death and Silence (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
21. Living in a State of Fear (Linda Green).
22. Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children (Jean Franco).
23. The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War (Antonius Robben).
24. On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King (Allen Feldman).
25. The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11 (Noam Chomsky).
26. Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/1l (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
Part VI: Violence and Political Resistance.
27. Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth (Jean-Paul Sartre).
28. From On Violence (Hannah Arendt).
29. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence (Begoña Aretxaga).
30. Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
Part VII: Peace Time Crimes: Everyday Violence.
31. Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege (Michael Taussig).
32. Symbolic Violence (Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant).
33. Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
34. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below (Paul Farme).
35. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua (James Quesada).
36. "The Lower Classes Smell," from The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell).
37. U.S. Inner City Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence (Philippe Bourgois).
38. Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave (Eric Klinenberg).
39. The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto (Loic Wacquant).
Part VIII: Gendered Violence.
40. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain (Veena Das).
41. From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (Mark Danner).
42. Gender and Symbolic Violence (Pierre Bourdieu).
43. The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape (Philippe Bourgois).
44. Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks (Stephen Donaldson).
45. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals (Carol Cohn).
Part IX: Torture.
46. From The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Elaine Scarry).
47. From Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Judith Herman).
48. The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms (Antjie Krog).
49. The Treatment of Children in the 'Dirty War': Ideology, State Terrorism, and the Abuse of Children in Argentina (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco).
Part X: Witnessing/Writing Violence.
50. From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman).
51. Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru (Orin Starn).
52. From War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents (Mark Pedelty).
53. With Genet in the Palestinian Field (Ted Swedenburg).
54. The Anthropologist as Terrorist (Joseba Zulaika).
55. An Alternative Anthropology: Exercising the Preferential Option for the Poor (Leigh Binford).
56. The Continuum of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador (Philippe Bourgois).
Part XI: Aftermaths.
57. The Witness (Giorgio Agamben).
58. Colonial War and Mental Disorders (Frantz Fanon).
59. From The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (Albie Sachs).
60. Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South Africa (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
61. From When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Mahmood Mamdani).
62. From The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness (Wole Soyinka).
Index.