Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays is written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. The book uses theoretical, ethnographic and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions characterizing life in dangerous places.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
The Anthropology and Ethnography of Violence and Sociopolitical Conflict
Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Carolyn Nordstrom
PRISONERS OF LOVE
With Genet in the Palestinian Field
Ted Swedenburg
RUMOR
The Beginning of the End
Anna Simons
ACCIDENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Witnessing the 1989 Chinese People's Movement
Frank N. Pieke
SEDUCTION AND PERSUASION
The Politics of Truth and Emotion among Victims
and Perpetrators of Violence
Antonius C.G.M. Robben
FEAR
Living in a State of Fear
Linda Green
CREATIVITY AND CHAOS
War on the Front Lines
Carolyn Nordstrom
RAPE ATTACK
Ethnography ofthe Ethnographer
Cathy Winkler, with Penelope] Hanke
COMING HOME
The Croatian War Experience
Maria B. Olujic
FACE
The Anthropologist as Terrorist
Joseba Zulaika
EPILOGUE
Ethnographic States of Emergency
Allen Feldman
ENDPIECES: THE DOING OF
ANTHROPOLOGY
Myrna Mack
Elizabeth Oglesby
Reflections on an Antropologia Comprometida:
Conversations with Ricardo Falla
Beatriz Manz
Reflections on Managing Danger in Fieldwork:
Dangerous Anthropology in Belfast
Jeffrey A. Sluka
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
