List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction: The Practice of War
Elisabeth Colson
PART I: CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA
Chapter 1. ‘We Turned our Enemies into Baboons’: Warfare,
Ritual and Pastoral Identity among the Pokot of Northern Kenya
Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle
Chapter 2. Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social
Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern Ethiopia
Jon Abbink
Chapter 3. Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in
Tooro, Western Uganda
Heike Behrend
PART II: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION
Chapter 4. Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of
Namibia, 1904–1940
Jan-Bart Gewald
Chapter 5. Trauma, Therapy and Responsibility: Psychology
and War in Contemporary Israel
Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari
Chapter 6. ‘I Shall be Waiting for You at the Door of
Paradise’: The Pakistani Martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of
the Pure)
Mariam Abou Zahab
PART III: ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGION
Chapter 7. Is War Gendered? Issues in Representing Women
and the Second World War
Elaine Martin
Chapter 8. Judging by Aesthetics: ‘Due Care’ in the
Management of ‘Collaboration’ in the First Palestinian Intifada
Iris Jean-Klein
Chapter 9. Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the
Lashkar-e Taiba
Yoginder Sikand
PART IV: THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDS
Chapter 10. In the Combat Zone
Marilyn B. Young
Chapter 11. ‘Virtual’ Discourse and the Creation and
Disruption of Social Networks: Observations on the War in Kashmir
in Cyberspace
Aparna Rao, Monika Böck, Katharina Schneider and Michael
Schnegg
Chapter 12. Martyrs, Victims, Friends and Foes: Internet
Representations by Palestinian Islamists
Henner Kirchner
Chapter 13. Mapping a Conflict in Cyberspace: Chiapas on
the WWW
Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg
PART V: PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVELENCES OF INTEREST
Chapter 14. Violence and Peace Processes
John Darby
Index
Aparna Rao (1950-2005) spent many years doing ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan, Kashmir and in western India, and published several books and papers based on her research.
"[A]n admirable example of how social anthropologists may contribute to understandings of conflicts and armed violence as complex and articulated social processes" · Ethos
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