Book description
Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to
assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in shaping
human experience and a central theme in anthropological study.
"Violence: Ethnographic Encounters" presents a set of vivid
first-hand accounts of fieldwork experiences of violence. The examples
range across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and
illustrate instances of state terror, insurgency, communal violence,
war, prison violence, class conflict, security measures, and sexual
violence. How do these anthropologists come to know a place through such
violent experience? Why do they not leave such scenes? What insights
follow from such experience? "Violence: Ethnographic
Encounters" offers readers a broad anthropological study of
violence through personal encounters. Violence takes many forms. From
large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals,
violence is a defining force in shaping human experience and a central
theme in anthropological study. "Violence: Ethnographic
Encounters" presents a set of vivid first-hand accounts of
fieldwork experiences of violence. The examples range across Latin
America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and illustrate instances of
state terror, insurgency, communal violence, war, prison violence, class
conflict, security measures, and sexual violence. How do these
anthropologists come to know a place through such violent experience?
Why do they not leave such scenes? What insights follow from such
experience? "Violence: Ethnographic Encounters" offers readers
a broad anthropological study of violence through personal encounters.
