1st Edition

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

Edited By Bettina Schmidt, Ingo Schroeder Copyright 2001
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

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