{"product_id":"the-practice-of-war-9780857451415","title":"The Practice of War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the long view that one can begin to see the commonalities that emerge from the different forms of conflict and can begin to generalize.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e[From the Introduction]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore needs to be understood about the ways of war and its effects. What implications does war have for people, their lived-in communities and larger political systems; how do they cope and adjust in war situations and how do they deal with the changed world that they inhabit once peace is declared? Through a series of essays that move from looking at the nature of violence to the peace processes that follow it, this important book provides some answers to these questions. It also analyzes those new dimensions of soci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"[A]n admirable example of how social anthropologists may contribute to understandings of conflicts and armed violence as complex and articulated social processes\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEthos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e The Practice of War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eElisabeth Colson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘We Turned our Enemies into Baboons’: Warfare, Ritual and Pastoral Identity among the Pokot of Northern Kenya\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Bollig\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMatthias Österle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern Ethiopia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJon Abbink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western Uganda\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHeike Behrend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904–1940\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJan-Bart Gewald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Trauma, Therapy and Responsibility: Psychology and War in Contemporary Israel\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eEdna Lomsky-Feder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEyal Ben-Ari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘I Shall be Waiting for You at the Door of Paradise’: The Pakistani Martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMariam Abou Zahab\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e Is War Gendered? Issues in Representing Women and the Second World War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eElaine Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Judging by Aesthetics: ‘Due Care’ in the Management of ‘Collaboration’ in the First Palestinian Intifada\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eIris Jean-Klein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-e Taiba\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eYoginder Sikand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART IV: THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e In the Combat Zone\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarilyn B. Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e ‘Virtual’ Discourse and the Creation and Disruption of Social Networks: Observations on the War in Kashmir in Cyberspace\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAparna Rao\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMonika Böck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKatharina Schneider\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMichael Schnegg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Martyrs, Victims, Friends and Foes: Internet Representations by Palestinian Islamists\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHenner Kirchner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Mapping a Conflict in Cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJulia Pauli\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMichael Schnegg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART V: PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVELENCES OF INTEREST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Violence and Peace Processes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJohn Darby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038903009623,"sku":"9780857451415","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451415.jpg?v=1750941873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-practice-of-war-9780857451415","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}