Violence Ethnographic Encounters

by Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis

• ISBN13: 9781847884176
• ISBN10: 1847884172
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in shaping human experience and a central theme in anthropological study. Violence: Ethnographic Encounters presents a set of vivid first-hand accounts of fieldwork experiences of violence. The examples range across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and illustrate instances of state terror, insurgency, communal violence, war, prison violence, class conflict, security measures, and sexual violence. How do these anthropologists come to know a place through such violent experience? Why do they not leave such scenes? What insights follow from such experience? Violence: Ethnographic Encounters offers readers a broad anthropological study of violence through personal encounters.

Author Biography

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introductio	p. 1
Written on My Body	p. 15
Bandh in Ahmedabad	p. 35
Feldwork and Fear in Iragi Kurdistan	p. 51
The sense of War Songs	p. 71
Sleeping with One Eye Open	p. 79
A Hell of a Party	p. 97
Arriving in Jewish Buenos Aires	p. 107
Dreamwork and Punishment in Lebanon	p. 119
Unwelcomed and Unwelcoming Encounters	p. 135
Guide to Further Reading	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 157
Index	p. 163
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