Violence

Name: Violence
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Theory and Ethnography

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This text explores the meanings and contexts in which violent actions occur. The authors build upon David Riches's concept of "the triangle of violence" - which examines the relationship between performers, victims and witnesses - and his proposition that violence is marked by contests regarding its legitimacy as a social act. Adopting an approach which looks at the negotiated and contingent nature of violent behaviour, Stewart and Strathern particularly stress the powerful underlying motivation for revenge and the often unacknowledged association between ideas of revenge and concepts of justice. These theoretical perspectives are applied to in-depth case studies from Rwanda-Burundi, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland. The authors also draw on extensive field experience in Papua New Guinea, and ethnographic detail is used to address broader issues of considerable global importance.

Author Biography:

Pamela J. Stewart is Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Andrew Strathern is Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. They are a research team who have carried out fieldwork in the Pacific region and Europe and have published widely on their research.

Release date Australia

December 19th, 2002

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Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

208

Dimensions

156x234x16

ISBN-13

9780826460080

Product ID

1734521

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