Cultural shaping of violence : victimization, escalation, response /
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| Imprint: | West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | 330 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Violence -- Cross-cultural studies. Violence. Cross-cultural studies. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5537988 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Part 2. Social Regulation of Anti-Social Behavior
- VIII. Violent Crime and the Loss of Fathers: Beyond the Long Arm
- IX. The Godmother as Mediator: Constraining Violence in a Zapotec Village of Oaxaca, Mexico
- X. Honor and Violence in a Brazilian Slum: Gendered Checks and Balances in the Politics of Everyday Life
- XI. Reprimand and Respect, Love and Fear in Experiences of Violence in Colombia
- XII. The Paradox of Politeness
- Part 3. Institutional Architectures Mediating and Memorializing Violence
- XIII. Violence by the Book: Redefining the Legitimate Use of Force in Municipal Policing
- XIV. Fortunes of War: From Primitive Warfare to Nuclear Policy in Anthropological Thought
- XV. Combat, Emotions, and the "Enemy": Metaphors of Soldiering in a Unit of Israeli Infantry Reserves
- I. Introduction: The Careless Feeding of Violence in Culture
- XVI. Being Broken in the Marines: The Social Construction of Belonging in the U.S. Marine Corps
- XVII. Epistemic Violence, Smear-Campaigns, and Hit-Lists: Disappearing the Palestinians
- XVIII. Violence Within and Against the Pacific
- XIX. Liberation, De-Liberations, and Stallings, Or, Is the "Post"-Here Yet?
- Part 4. Escalating Ecologies of Perturbation
- XX. Violence in Madura: The Interplay of Resource, Culture, and History
- XXI. Ambivalent Exchanges: The Violence of Patronazgo in the Upper Amazon
- XXII. Taiwan's Consumerism, Gangs, and Violence
- XXIII. Intended Social Effects of a Culture of Impunity: The Case of Guatemala
- XXIV. Political Violence and the Public Eye
- Part 1. Children and Women First? Violence Close to Home
- XXV. Violence as Culture: "Educating" Political Prisoners in Romania
- XXVI. The Moral Cycle of Egoistic and Altruistic Violence: A Century of Bloodshed in Colombia
- Part 5. Loose Ends: Reflections and Epilogue
- XXVII. Reflections on the Saami at Loose Ends
- XXVIII. Epilogue: Denaturing Cultural Violence
- Contributors
- Index
- II. Violence Absorbed: Lives of Children in an American City
- III. School Power, Children's Play, and the Timing of Recess Violence
- IV. Growing Up with Violence in Northern Ireland: Making Meaning of Institutionalized Violence
- V. Believed and Not Believed: Community Reaction to Rape in Mexico and the U.S.
- VI. "Here the Cock Does Not Crow, For He Is Not the Lord of the Land": Machismo, Insecurity, and Male Violence in Brazil
- VII. Transformations in Domestic Violence and Conflict Resolution within a Midwestern U.S. Nuer Refugee Community
