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Sarajevo Under Siege
Anthropology in Wartime
Av Ivana Maček
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
342 kr
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Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the …
Sarajevo Under Siege
Anthropology in Wartime
Av Ivana Maček
E-bok, 2016
437 kr
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Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the …
Histories of Victimhood
Av Steffen Jensen, Henrik Ronsbo
E-bok, 2014
957 kr
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The word and concept of victim bear a heavy weight. To represent oneself or to be represented as a victim is often a first and vital step toward having one's suffering and one's claims to rights socially and legally recognized. Yet to name oneself or be called a victim is a risky claim, and social …
Landscape of Hope and Despair
Palestinian Refugee Camps
Av Julie Peteet
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set against the backdrop of prolonged violence. Julie …
Death Squad
The Anthropology of State Terror
E-bok, 2010
424 kr
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"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."-Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of …
War and Slavery in Sudan
E-bok, 2010
504 kr
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Slavery has been endemic in Sudan for thousands of years. Today the Sudanese slave trade persists as a complex network of buyers, sellers, and middlemen that operates most actively when times are favorable to the practice. As Jok Madut Jok argues, the present day is one such time, as the Sudanese …
Masking Terror
How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka
E-bok, 2013
1092 kr
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In Sri Lanka, staggering numbers of young men were killed fighting in the armed forces against Tamil separatists. The war became one of attrition-year after year waves of young foot soldiers were sent to almost certain death in a war so bloody that the very names of the most famous battle scenes …
Everyday Nationalism
Women of the Hindu Right in India
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Hindu nationalism has been responsible for acts of extreme violence against religious minorities and is a dominant force on the sociopolitical landscape of contemporary India. How does such a violent and exclusionary movement recruit supporters? How do members navigate the tensions between the …
Liberia
The Violence of Democracy
E-bok, 2013
424 kr
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Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization …
Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina
E-bok, 2010
603 kr
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For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances …
Iraq at a Distance
What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War
E-bok, 2010
437 kr
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The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on …
Karaoke Fascism
Burma and the Politics of Fear
E-bok, 2012
479 kr
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To come to Burma, one of the few places where despotism still dominates, is to take both a physical and an emotional journey and, like most Burmese, to become caught up in the daily management of fear. Based on Monique Skidmore's experiences living in the capital city of Rangoon, Karaoke Fascism is …
Child Soldiers in Africa
E-bok, 2011
424 kr
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Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp …
In My Mother's House
Civil War in Sri Lanka
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army overwhelmed the last stronghold of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-better known as the Tamil Tigers-officially bringing an end to nearly three decades of civil war. Although the war has ended, the place of minorities in Sri Lanka remains uncertain, not least …
Security and Suspicion
An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
Av Juliana Ochs
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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In Israel, gates, fences, and walls encircle public spaces while guards scrutinize, inspect, and interrogate. With a population constantly aware of the possibility of suicide bombings, Israel is defined by its culture of security. Security and Suspicion is a closely drawn ethnographic study of the …
El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace
Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy
Av Ellen Moodie
E-bok, 2011
504 kr
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El Salvador's civil war, which left at least 75,000 people dead and displaced more than a million, ended in 1992. The accord between the government and the Farabundo MartÍ National Liberation Front (FMLN) has been lauded as a model post-Cold War peace agreement. But after the conflict stopped, …
Risk of War
Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia
E-bok, 2012
985 kr
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The Risk of War focuses on practices and performances of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)-a conflict initiated by the NLA with the proclaimed purpose of …
Maoists at the Hearth
Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War
E-bok, 2013
913 kr
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The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, …
Conscientious Objectors in Israel
Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty
Av Erica Weiss
E-bok, 2014
766 kr
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In Conscientious Objectors in Israel, Erica Weiss examines the lives of Israelis who have refused to perform military service for reasons of conscience. Based on long-term fieldwork, this ethnography chronicles the personal experiences of two generations of Jewish conscientious objectors as they …
On the Doorstep of Europe
Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
Av Heath Cabot
E-bok, 2014
1058 kr
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Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum seekers who arrive by land and sea. In On the Doorstep of Europe, Heath Cabot presents an …
Different Kind of War Story
Häftad, 1997
342 kr
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A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives-mostly civilian-and completely destroyed homes, crops, hospitals, schools, and even access to water. …
Unraveling Somalia
Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery
Häftad, 1999
400 kr
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In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil …
Death Squad
The Anthropology of State Terror
Häftad, 1999
332 kr
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"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."-Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of …
War and Slavery in Sudan
Häftad, 2001
400 kr
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Slavery has been endemic in Sudan for thousands of years. Today the Sudanese slave trade persists as a complex network of buyers, sellers, and middlemen that operates most actively when times are favorable to the practice. As Jok Madut Jok argues, the present day is one such time, as the Sudanese …
Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel
Häftad, 2003
332 kr
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At the heart of the current Palestinian-Israeli struggle lies the question of territorial partition and the establishment of sovereignty. The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority negotiated interim borders, but new permanent checkpoints and border closures became severe problems and …
Karaoke Fascism
Burma and the Politics of Fear
Häftad, 2004
388 kr
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To come to Burma, one of the few places where despotism still dominates, is to take both a physical and an emotional journey and, like most Burmese, to become caught up in the daily management of fear. Based on Monique Skidmore's experiences living in the capital city of Rangoon, Karaoke Fascism is …
Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina
Häftad, 2007
445 kr
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For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances …
Liberia
The Violence of Democracy
Häftad, 2008
332 kr
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Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization …
Landscape of Hope and Despair
Palestinian Refugee Camps
Av Julie Peteet
Häftad, 2009
332 kr
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Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set against the backdrop of prolonged violence. Julie …
Iraq at a Distance
What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War
Häftad, 2011
339 kr
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The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on …
