Death Squad : The Anthropology of State Terror /

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"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."-Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aditjondro, George J. (Contribuidor), Afflitto, Frank M. (Contribuidor), Aretxaga, Begoña (Contribuidor), Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley (Contribuidor), McKenna, Thomas M. (Contribuidor), Pettigrew, Joyce (Contribuidor), Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (Contribuidor), Sluka, Jeffrey A. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Warren, Kay B. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Colección:The Ethnography of Political Violence
Temas:
Constitutional torts.
Death squads.
Human rights.
Political persecution.
State-sponsored terrorism.
Terrorism.
Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Anthropology.
Folklore.
General.
Law.
Linguistics.
Political Science.
Social Science.
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Sumario:"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."-Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. It brings together an international group of anthropologists who have done extensive research in areas marked by extreme forms of state violence and who have studied state terror from the perspective of victims and survivors. The book presents eight case studies from seven countries-Spain, India (Punjab and Kashmir), Argentina, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, and the Philippines-to demonstrate the cultural complexities and ambiguities of terror when viewed at the local level and from the participants' point of view. Contributors deal with such topics as the role of Loyalist death squads in the culture of terror in Northern Ireland, the three-tier mechanism of state terror in Indonesia, the complex role of religion in violence by both the state and insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, and the ways in which "disappearances" are used to destabilize and demoralize opponents of the state in Argentina, Guatemala, and India.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 p.) : 8 illus.
ISBN:9780812200485
9783110413458
9783110413618
9783110459548
Acceso:restricted access

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