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Meanings of Violence A Cross-Cultural Perspective
238 Pages
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Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults, feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social life.The... Read more
Preface: Violation and Violence as Cultural Phenomena, Introduction: The Idiom of Violence in Imagery and Discourse 1 The Enigma of Senseless Violence 2 'Criminals by Instinct': On the 'Tragedy' of Social Structure and the 'Violence' of lndividual Creativity 3 Ritual, Violence and Social Order: An Approach to Spanish Bullfighting 4 Restoring the Balance: Violence and Culture Among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia 5 Tolerating the Intolerable: Cattle Raiding Among the Kuria of Kenya 6 Rethinking 'Violence' in Chinese Culture 7 Butchering Fish and Executing Criminals: Public Executions and the Meanings of Violence in Late Imperial and Modem China, 8 The 'Tradition of Violence' in Colombia: Material and Symbolic Aspects
Biography
Göran Aijmer University of Gothenburg Jon Abbink Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
