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 anthr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sluka, Jeffrey A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000.
Colección:Ethnography of political violence.
Temas:
Terrorism.
State-sponsored terrorism.
Death squads.
Human rights.
Political persecution.
Constitutional torts.
Terrorism
Human Rights
Terrorisme.
Terrorisme d'État.
Escadrons de la mort.
Violation des droits de l'homme.
Répression politique.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
terrorism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Terreur.
Overheid.
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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 (x, 260 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
ISBN:9780812200485
0812200489
1283210959
9781283210959
9786613210951
6613210951

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