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  • - An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance
    av Nasser Abufarha
    330 - 1 156,-

    Claims that there is a cultural logic to Palestinian suicide bombings, and that these acts can neither be understood nor effectively countered without taking this into account. This title illuminates the Palestinians' perspective on the conflict with Israel and provides a model for ethnographers seeking to make sense of political violence.

  • - Violence as Cultural Imaginary
    av Tomislav Z. Longinovic
    320 - 1 150,-

    Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.

  • - Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
    av Daniel M. Goldstein
    356 - 1 206,-

    An ethnography examining how indigenous residents of crime-ridden, marginalized neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance human rights with their need for safety and security.

  • - Marketing Memory in Latin America
     
    376,-

    Offering bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America, scholars analyze the memory markets in six countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s.

  • - Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
    av Danny Hoffman
    340 - 1 216,-

    Based on ethnographic research among militias in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor on battlefields and in dangerous unregulated industries.

  • - Marketing Memory in Latin America
     
    1 340,-

    Offering bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America, scholars analyze the memory markets in six countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s.

  • - Truth, Memory, and Representation
     
    336,99

    Leading anthropologists consider issues of truth, memory, and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan.

  • - Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
    av Aparecida Vilaca
    360 - 1 280,-

    This vivid ethnographic account of the first peaceful encounters between the Wari Indians of western Brazil and missionaries and government workers emphasizes how the Wari perceived the interactions.

  • - Truth, Memory, and Representation
     
    1 206,-

    Leading anthropologists consider issues of truth, memory, and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan.

  • - An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
    av Hans Staden
    330 - 1 156,-

    In 1550, the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. This title tells the story of his nine-month captivity among the Tupi Indians. It presents a dramatic first-person account of his capture, captivity, and eventual escape.

  • - Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
    av Leigh A. Payne
    356 - 1 280,-

    Asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. This book contends that public confessions do not settle the past. It argues that this debate and the public confessions that trigger it are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and contestation of political ideas.

  • - Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing
     
    1 270,-

    The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research.

  • - Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing
     
    340,-

    The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research.

  • av Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca
    336,99 - 1 206,-

    Addressing the organization and outfitting of conquest expeditions, this title includes extended discussions of arms and medicine. It covers the proper behaviour of soldiers, providing advice on marching through peaceful and bellicose territories, crossing rivers, bivouacking in foul weather, and carrying out night raids and ambushes.

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    1 206,-

    A collection exploring how individuals and institutions in contemporary Latin American democracies use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice.

  • - War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
    av Sverker Finnstrom
    323,99 - 1 206,-

    An ethnographic examination of how northern Ugandans understand and attempt to control their moral universe and material circumstances in the midst of civil war.

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    346,-

    A collection exploring how individuals and institutions in contemporary Latin American democracies use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice.

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