Virtual War and Magical Death

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• Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite ... Lees meer

Unsettling Accounts

Leigh A Payne

• Paperback | Engels | Cultures and Practice of Violence
• An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina's Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet's intel... Lees meer

Genocide

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• What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective... Lees meer

Hans Staden's True History

Hans Staden

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• In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by t... Lees meer

Living with Bad Surroundings

Sverker Finnström

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• Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord's Resistance Army and other groups ... Lees meer

Violent Democracies in Latin America

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• Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence.... Lees meer

Outlawed

Daniel M Goldstein

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• In Outlawed , Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with... Lees meer

Vampire Nation

Tomislav Z Longinovic

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• Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing 'the serbs' as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the tw... Lees meer

Strange Enemies

Aparecida Vilaça

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• In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari' Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and office... Lees meer

The Making of a Human Bomb

Nasser Abufarha

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• In The Making of a Human Bomb , Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations... Lees meer

The War Machines

Danny Hoffman

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• In The War Machines , Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, ru... Lees meer

Accounting for Violence

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• Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social scienc... Lees meer