Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000. |
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| Description: | xvii, 220 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Violence -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies. Violence -- Cross-cultural studies. Violence. Violence -- Social aspects. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4309757 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Violation and Violence as Cultural Phenomena / Jon Abbink
- Introduction: The Idiom of Violence in Imagery and Discourse / Goran Aijmer
- 1. The Enigma of Senseless Violence / Anton Blok
- 2. 'Criminals by Instinct': On the 'Tragedy' of Social Structure and the 'Violence' or Individual Creativity / Nigel Rapport
- 3. Ritual, Violence and Social Order: An Approach to Spanish Bullfighting / Alberto Bouroncle
- 4. Restoring the Balance: Violence and Culture Among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink
- 5. Tolerating the Intolerable: Cattle Raiding Among the Kuria of Kenya / Suzette Heald
- 6. Rethinking 'Violence' in Chinese Culture / Barend J. ter Haar
- 7. Butchering Fish and Executing Criminals: Public Executions and the Meanings of Violence in Late Imperial and Modern China / Virgil Kit-yiu Ho
- 8. The 'Tradition of Violence' in Colombia: Material and Symbolic Aspects / Gerard Martin.
