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The paths to domination, resistance, and terror

Title: The paths to domination, resistance, and terror / edited by Carolyn Nordstrom and JoAnn Martin.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.

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ix, 299 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror portrays the trajectory of contemporary conflict from an ethnographic perspective. The authors explore the ways in which domination, resistance, and terror are played out in the lives of people who live under political and military domination, the reality of war, or the horror of torture and political prisons. Organized along a continuum from situations of weakly contested domination through the development of formal resistance to conditions of violence so severe they disrupt the entire social fabric, the essays delineate the way local culture is interwoven with national and international power relations." "The paradox of modern day systems of sociopolitical violence is that they are simultaneously centralized and decentralized, deliberate and chaotic. Political ideologies and (para)military force may be engendered at centralized loci of power, but their effects emerge out of configurations of various personal, local, national, and international forces. As a result, conflict today has a multilayered quality that the ethnographic fieldworker is able to capture by drawing (inter)national political forces and local cultural processes into the same arena of observation. The "field reality" provides a unique perspective on modern sociopolitical violence, one that captures the dynamic relationship between cultural processes and turmoil." "National security concerns and economic interests are often the starting point of theories about conflict and its escalation into warfare. Ethnographic research offers a different and much needed view of warfare, one in which questions of strategies and military hardware are subordinated to questions about how people respond to political propaganda and pressure, how they imagine and enact forms of resistance, how they perceive the "lived" experience of warfare and violence, and how they ultimately define their world as a result of these experiences."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The culture of conflict : field reality and theory / Carolyn Nordstrom, JoAnn Martin. The anthropology of conflict / Jeffrey A. Sluka. Anthropology and the politics of genocide / John H. Bodley -- Domination: Domination, acting, and fantasy / James C. Scott. Resisting "ethnicity" : the Israeli State and Bedouin identity / Longina Jakubowska. Hyenas on the border / Edgar Winans -- Resistance: Ideas on Philippine violence : assertions, negations, and narrations / Jean-Paul Dumont. Time and irony in Manila squatter movements / Philip C. Parnell. When the people Were strong and united : stories of the past and the transformation of politics in a Mexican community / JoAnn Martin. The politics of painting : political murals in Northern Ireland / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Terror: A grammar of terror : psychocultural responses to state terrorism in dirty war and post-dirty war Argentina / Marcelo Suarez-Orozco. The backyard front / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Epilogue: Conflict and violence / Elizabeth Colson.

ISBN

0520073150
9780520073159
0520073169
9780520073166

LCCN

91004767

OCLC

ocm23584684
23584684
SCSB-8976371

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Princeton University Library