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Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective
- Title
- Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective / edited by Göran Aijmer and Jon Abbink.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.
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- Description
- xvii, 220 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-215) and index.
- Contents
- The enigma of senseless violence / Anton Blok -- 'Criminals by instinct' : on the 'tragedy' of social structure and the 'violence' of individual creativity / Nigel Rapport -- Ritual, violence and social order : an approach to Spanish bullfighting / Alberto Bouroncle -- Restoring the balance : violence and culture among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink -- Tolerating the intolerable : cattle raiding among the Kuria of Kenya / Suzette Heald -- Rethinking 'violence' in Chinese culture / Barend J. ter Haar -- Butchering fish and executing criminals : public executions and the meanings of violence in late Imperial and modern China / Virgil Kit-yiu Ho -- The 'tradition of violence' in Colombia : material and symbolic aspects / Gerard Martin.
- Call Number
- JFD 00-16568
- ISBN
- 1859734359
- 1859734405 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 43542691
- Title
- Meanings of violence : a cross cultural perspective / edited by Göran Aijmer and Jon Abbink.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-215) and index.
- Added Author
- Abbink, J.Aijmer, Göran.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 00-16568