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Sarajevo Under Siege
Anthropology in Wartime
Av Ivana Maček
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
375 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 …
Child Soldiers in Africa
Häftad, 2007
384 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 …
A Different Kind of War Story
Häftad, 1997
396 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
454 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
385 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
454 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 …
Karaoke Fascism
Burma and the Politics of Fear
Häftad, 2004
441 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
539 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
385 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
385 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
393 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 …
Everyday Nationalism
Women of the Hindu Right in India
Häftad, 2012
385 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 …
Security and Suspicion
An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
Av Juliana Ochs
Häftad, 2013
441 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 …
In My Mother's House
Civil War in Sri Lanka
Häftad, 2013
445 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 …
Culture and PTSD
Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
Häftad, 2019
552 kr
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Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for …
Jungle Passports
Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Av Malini Sur
Häftad, 2021
442 kr
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Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and Christian "ethnic minorities," suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and …
War Is Coming
Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
Av Sami Hermez
Häftad, 2021
442 kr
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From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a …
Masking Terror
How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2002
1018 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 …
Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence
The Refugees' Return
Av Kristi Anne Stolen, Kristi Anne Stølen
Inbunden, 2007
906 kr
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In the early 1980s the Guatemalan army unleashed a scorched-earth campaign against civilians suspected of supporting antigovernment guerrilla forces. Faced with violent repression, indigenous people found various ways to survive. Some joined the guerrilla ranks, some fell in with so-called …
The Risk of War
Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia
Inbunden, 2012
933 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
Inbunden, 2013
875 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, …
Histories of Victimhood
Av Steffen Jensen, Henrik Ronsbo
Inbunden, 2014
906 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 …
Conscientious Objectors in Israel
Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty
Av Erica Weiss
Inbunden, 2014
737 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
Inbunden, 2014
991 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 …
Citizens of an Empty Nation
Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
Inbunden, 2015
1009 kr
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In the wake of devastating conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the polarizing effects of everyday ethnic divisions, combined with hardened allegiances to ethnic nationalism and the rigid arrangements imposed in international peace-building agreements, have produced what Azra Hromadžić calls an "empty …
Culture and PTSD
Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
Av Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good
Inbunden, 2015
1383 kr
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Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for …
Remediation in Rwanda
Grassroots Legal Forums
Inbunden, 2016
962 kr
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Kristin Conner Doughty examines how Rwandans navigated the combination of harmony and punishment in grassroots courts purportedly designed to rebuild the social fabric in the wake of the 1994 genocide. Postgenocide Rwandan officials developed new local courts ostensibly modeled on traditional …
No Place for Grief
Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
Inbunden, 2016
850 kr
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Advances an understanding of loss, mourning, and grief in contemporary PalestineWesterners 'know' Palestine through images of war and people in immediate distress. Yet this focus has as its consequence that other, less spectacular stories of daily distress are rarely told. Those seldom noticed are …
Sovereignty in Exile
A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs
Av Alice Wilson
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
991 kr
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Traces social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees in North AfricaSovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state power through the case of a liberation movement that set out to make itself into a state. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was founded by the Polisario …
War Is Coming
Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
Av Sami Hermez
Inbunden, 2017
1164 kr
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From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a …
