The Practice of War
Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence
The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the long view that one can begin to see the commonalities that emerge from the different forms of conflict and can begin to generalize. [From the Introduction] More needs to be understood about the ways of war and its effects. What implications does war have for people, their lived-in communities and larger political systems; how do they cope and adjus…
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Weitere Autoren: Bollig, Michael (Hrsg.) / Böck, Monika (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-059-3
- EAN: 9780857450593
- Produktnummer: 20453191
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 366 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'494 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Monika Böck is a Social Anthropologist, affiliated with the University of Cologne. She has conducted fieldwork among a matrilineal community in North-Eastern India. She is interested in kinship & gender studies, cognitive anthropology, and the medialization of war and violence. Together with Aparna Rao she published Culture, Creation and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice (Berghahn Books 2000).
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