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Death squad : the anthropology of state terror /
"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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2000.
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| Series: | Ethnography of political violence.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : State terror and anthropology / Jeffrey A. Sluka
- A fictional reality : paramilitary death squads and the construction of state terror in Spain / Begoña Aretxaga
- Trials by fire : dynamics of terror in Punjab and Kashmir / Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
- State terror in the netherworld : disappearance and reburial in Argentina / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
- The homogenizing effects of state-sponsored terrorism : the case of Guatemala / Frank M. Afflitto
- "For God and Ulster" : the culture of terror and loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka
- Ninjas, nanggalas, monuments, and Mossad manuals : an anthropology of Indonesian state terror in East Timor / George J. Aditjondro
- Murdered or martyred? Popular evaluations of violent death in the Muslim separatist movement in the Philippines / Thomas M. McKenna
- Parents and their children in situations of terror : disappearances and special police activity in Punjab / Joyce Pettigrew
- Conclusion : Death squads and wider complicities : dilemmas for the anthropology of violence / Kay B. Warren.