The War Machines : Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia /

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Ethnography traces how mobilization of young men as civil militia defending rural communities in Sierra Leone became a floating population of regional warriors, part of a political economy of wartime violence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman, Danny, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Barnsoldater.
Ungdomar och krig.
Unga män.
Inbördeskriget i Sierra Leone 1991-2002.
Inbördeskriget i Liberia 1989-1996.
Regions & Countries - Africa.
History & Archaeology.
Bürgerkrieg
Junger Mann
Gewalt
Militia movements.
Military participation > Juvenile.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Milices > Liberia > Histoire.
Milices > Sierra Leone > Histoire.
Militia movements > Liberia > History.
Militia movements > Sierra Leone > History.
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Sierra Leone.
Liberia.
Liberia > Histoire > 1999-2003 (Guerre civile) > Participation des jeunes.
Liberia > Histoire > 1989-1996 (Guerre civile) > Participation des jeunes.
Sierra Leone > Histoire > 1991-2002 (Guerre civile) > Participation des jeunes.
Liberia > History > Civil War, 1999-2003 > Participation, Juvenile.
Liberia > History > Civil War, 1989-1996 > Participation, Juvenile.
Sierra Leone > History > Civil War, 1991-2002 > Participation, Juvenile.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Mano River war : a chronology
  • Hunters, lumpens, and war boys : a social history of the Kamajors, part 1
  • States of conflict : a social history of the Kamajors, part 2
  • Big men, small boys
  • The barracks
  • The hotel Kamajor
  • The magic of war.

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