Physical Description
x, 379 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Violence-prone area or international transition? adding the role of outsiders in Balkan violence / Susan L. Woodward
Violence and vision: the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman
Circumcision, body, masculinity: the ritual wound and collective violence / Deepak Mehta
Teach me how to be a man: an exploration of the definition of masculinity / Mamphela Ramphele
On not becoming a "terrorist": problems of memory, agency, and community in Sri Lankan conflict / Jonathan Spencer
The ground of all making: state violence, the family, and political activists / Pamela Reynolds
Violence, suffering, Amman: the work of oracles in Sri Lanka's eastern war zone / Patricia Lawrence
The act of witnessing: violence, poisonous knowledge, and subjectivity / Veena Das
The violences of everyday life: the multiple forms and dynamics of social violence / Arthur Kleinman
Body and space in a time of crisis: sterilization and resettlement during the emergency in Delhi / Emma Tarlo
The quest for human organs and the violence of zeal / Margaret Lock
Mayan multiculturalism and the violence of memories / Kay B. Warren
Reconciliation and memory in postwar Nigeria / Murray Last
Mood, moment, and mind / E. Valentine Daniel.
Other Authors/Editors
Das, Veena.
ISBN
0520216075
0520216083 (paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
