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Unsettling Accounts
Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Häftad, 2008
440 kr
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An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian …
Hans Staden's True History
An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
Av Hans Staden
Häftad, 2008
300 kr
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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 the TupinambÁ, an indigenous people who had a reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of the French, were hostile to the …
Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Av Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Kris Lane
Häftad, 2008
651 kr
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Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune …
Genocide
Truth, Memory, and Representation
Av Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Häftad, 2009
440 kr
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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 levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the …
Making of a Human Bomb
An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance
Häftad, 2009
384 kr
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In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have …
Strange Enemies
Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
Häftad, 2010
440 kr
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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 officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the whites …
Violent Democracies in Latin America
Av Enrique Desmond Arias, Daniel M. Goldstein
Häftad, 2010
384 kr
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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. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, …
Vampire Nation
Violence As Cultural Imaginary
Inbunden, 2011
1644 kr
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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 twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. …
Vampire Nation
Violence As Cultural Imaginary
Häftad, 2011
393 kr
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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 twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. …
Accounting for Violence
Marketing Memory in Latin America
Av Leigh A. Payne, Ksenija Bilbija
Häftad, 2011
440 kr
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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 sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from …
War Machines
Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Inbunden, 2011
1318 kr
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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, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia …
War Machines
Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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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, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia …
Outlawed
Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
Häftad, 2012
384 kr
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In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to …
Virtual War and Magical Death
Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing
Av Neil L. Whitehead, Sverker Finnström
Inbunden, 2013
1318 kr
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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 the collected essays, which are based on ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as …
Virtual War and Magical Death
Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing
Av Neil L. Whitehead, Sverker Finnström
Häftad, 2013
384 kr
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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 the collected essays, which are based on ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as …
Unsettling Accounts
Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Inbunden, 2008
1402 kr
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An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian …
Living with Bad Surroundings
War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
Inbunden, 2008
1569 kr
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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 fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced …
Hans Staden's True History
An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
Av Hans Staden
Inbunden, 2008
1263 kr
Tillfälligt slut
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 the TupinambÁ, an indigenous people who had a reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of the French, were hostile to the …
Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Av Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Kris Lane
Inbunden, 2008
1358 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune …
Genocide
Truth, Memory, and Representation
Av Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill
Inbunden, 2009
1318 kr
Tillfälligt slut
What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the …
Making of a Human Bomb
An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance
Inbunden, 2009
1263 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have …
Strange Enemies
Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
Inbunden, 2010
1402 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of RondÔnia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the whites …
Violent Democracies in Latin America
Av Enrique Desmond Arias, Daniel M. Goldstein
Inbunden, 2010
1318 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, …
Accounting for Violence
Marketing Memory in Latin America
Av Leigh A. Payne, Ksenija Bilbija
Inbunden, 2011
1458 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from …
Outlawed
Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
Inbunden, 2012
1318 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to …
