Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. It ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themselves and others when perpetrators, victims, and witnesses all come from the same social space.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman
Violence-Prone Area or International Transition?
Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan Violence
Susan L. Woodward
Violence and Vision:
The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror
Allen Feldman
Circumcision, Body, Masculinity:
The Ritual Wound and Collective Violence
Deepak Mehta
Teach Me How to Be a Man:
An Exploration of the Definition of Masculinity
Mamphela Ramphele
On Not Becoming a "Terrorist": Problems of Memory,
Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict
Jonathan Spencer
The Ground of All Making:
State Violence, the Family, and Political Activists
Pamela Reynolds
Violence, Suffering, Amman:
The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War Zone
Patricia Lawrence
The Act of Witnessing:
Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity
Veena Das
The Violences of Everyday Life:
The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social Violence
Arthur Kleinman
Body and Space in a Time of Crisis:
Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in Delhi
Emma Tarlo
The Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of Zeal
Margaret Lock
Mayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of Memories
Kay B. Warren
Reconciliation and Memory in Postwar Nigeria
Murray Last
Mood, Moment, and Mind
E. Valentine Daniel
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
