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The practice of war : production, reproduction and communication of armed violence

Title
The practice of war : production, reproduction and communication of armed violence / edited by Aparna Rao, Michael Bollig and Monika Böck ; [with an introduction by Elisabeth Colson].
Publication
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Rao, Aparna.
  • Bollig, Michael.
  • Böck, Monika.
Description
xvii, 346 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The practice of war / Elisabeth Colson -- pt. 1. Changing qualities of violence: case studies from Africa. 'We turned our enemies into baboons': warfare, ritual and pastoral identity among the Pokot of northern Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle -- Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink -- Catholics and cannibals: terror and healing in Tooro, western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- pt. 2. Memory, trauma and redemption. Coming through slaughter: the Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 / Jan-Bart Gewald -- Trauma, therapy and responsibility: psychology and war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari -- 'I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise': the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure) / Mariam Abou Zahab -- pt. 3. Organizing, encouraging and dissuading: the uses of kinship, gender and religion. Is war gendered? Issues in representing women and the Second World War / Elaine Martin -- Judging by aesthetics: 'due care' in the management of 'collaboration' in the first Palestinian Intifada / Iris Jean-Klein -- Islamist militancy in Kashmir: the case of the Lashkar-e Taiba / Yoginder Sikand -- pt. 4. The inscription of war in mediated worlds. In the combat zone / Marilyn B. Young -- 'Virtual' discourse and the creation and disruption of social networks: observations on the war in Kashmir in cyberspace / Aparna Rao ... [et al.] -- Martyrs, victims, friends and foes: internet representations by Palestinian islamists / Henner Kirchner -- -- Mapping a conflict in cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW / Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg -- pt. 5. Peace building at the crossroads: appropriations of war, ambivalences of interest. Violence and peace processes / John Darby.
Call Number
JFE 08-3493
ISBN
  • 1845452801
  • 9781845452803
OCLC
173089287
Title
The practice of war : production, reproduction and communication of armed violence / edited by Aparna Rao, Michael Bollig and Monika Böck ; [with an introduction by Elisabeth Colson].
Imprint
New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Rao, Aparna.
Bollig, Michael.
Böck, Monika.
Research Call Number
JFE 08-3493
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