Violence expressed : an anthropological approach /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. |
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| Description: | xii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Violence -- Cross-cultural studies. Violent crimes -- Cross-cultural studies. Violence. Violent crimes. Cross-cultural studies. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8295995 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Speaking blood: metaphoric expressions of sexual violence in a Guadeloupian family
- Expressed, muted and silenced: Mestizo childhood and everyday violence in a marginal neighbourhood in Quito, Ecuador
- Part III. Remembering and Aftermath
- Silence, denial and confession about state terror by the Argentine military
- From traumatic history to embodied memory: a methodological challenge to anthropologists
- 'All filmmaking is a form of therapy': visualising memories of war violence in the animation film Waltz with Bashir (2008)
- Blurred boundaries in World War I: strategies of censorship, denial and the role of witness accounts
- Index
- Part I. Normalization and Aesthetics
- The utter normalization of violence: silence, memory and impunity among the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska
- Warriors of honour, warriors of faith: two historical male role models from south-western Arabia
- Public events and the Japanese self-defense forces: aesthetics, ritual density and the normalization of military violence
- Aesthetics of martyrdom: the celebration of violent death among the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Part II. Discursive Strategies - Muted Language
- When soldiers explain: discursive strategies used by Israeli conscripts when recounting their experiences in the field
- Tense relations: dealing with narratives of violence in eastern Turkey