The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

Published by Berghahn Books 2008

The Practice of War

Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

Edited by: Aparna Rao , Michael Bollig and Monika Böck

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450593

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The 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. [From the Introduction]

More 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 social interaction, such as the internet, which now provide a bridge between local concerns and global networks and are fundamentally altering the practices of war.

Author / Editor information

Aparna Rao (1950-2005) spent many years doing ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan, Kashmir and in western India, and published several books and papers based on her research.

Michael Bollig is a Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He has conducted fieldwork in northern Kenya and northern Namibia with pastoral communities. He recently published Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment. A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies (Springer/New York 2005). Michael Bollig is the speaker of the interdisciplinary research group Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in Social-Ecological Systems of Eastern and Southern African Savannahs.

Monika Böck is a Social Anthropologist, affiliated with the University of Cologne. She has conducted fieldwork among a matrilineal community in North-Eastern India. She is interested in kinship & gender studies, cognitive anthropology, and the medialization of war and violence. Together with Aparna Rao she published Culture, Creation and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice (Berghahn Books 2000).

Aparna Rao (1950-2005) spent many years doing ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan, Kashmir and in western India, and published several books and papers based on her research.

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"[A]n admirable example of how social anthropologists may contribute to understandings of conflicts and armed violence as complex and articulated social processes" · Ethos

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION THE PRACTICE OF WAR Elizabeth Colson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICA
CHAPTER 1 ‘WE TURNED OUR ENEMIES INTO BABOONS’: WARFARE, RITUAL AND PASTORAL IDENTITY AMONG THE POKOT OF NORTHERN KENYA Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER 2 CULTURE SLIPPING AWAY: VIOLENCE, SOCIAL TENSION AND PERSONAL DRAMA IN SURI SOCIETY, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA Jon Abbink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
CHAPTER 3 CATHOLICS AND CANNIBALS: TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO, WESTERN UGANDA Heike Behrend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
PART II MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION
CHAPTER 4 COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER: THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, 1904–1940 Jan-Bart Gewald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
CHAPTER 5 TRAUMA, THERAPY AND RESPONSIBILITY: PSYCHOLOGY AND WAR IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
CHAPTER 6 ‘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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
PART III ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGION
CHAPTER 7 IS WAR GENDERED? ISSUES IN REPRESENTING WOMEN AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR Elaine Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
CHAPTER 8 JUDGING BY AESTHETICS: ‘DUE CARE’ IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ‘COLLABORATION’ IN THE FIRST PALESTINIAN INTIFADA Iris Jean-Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
CHAPTER 9 ISLAMIST MILITANCY IN KASHMIR: THE CASE OF THE LASHKAR-E TAIBA Yoginder Sikand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
PART IV THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDS
CHAPTER 10 IN THE COMBAT ZONE Marilyn B. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
CHAPTER 11 ‘VIRTUAL’ DISCOURSE AND THE CREATION AND DISRUPTION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE WAR IN KASHMIR IN CYBERSPACE Aparna Rao, Monika Böck, Katharina Schneider and Michael Schnegg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
CHAPTER 12 MARTYRS, VICTIMS, FRIENDS AND FOES: INTERNET REPRESENTATIONS BY PALESTINIAN ISLAMISTS Henner Kirchner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
CHAPTER 13 MAPPING A CONFLICT IN CYBERSPACE: CHIAPAS ON THE WWW Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
PART V PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVALENCES OF INTEREST
CHAPTER 14 VIOLENCE AND PEACE PROCESSES John Darby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 366
Keywords: Peace and Conflict Studies; Theory and Methodology

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Published: March 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780857450593