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Introduction: Making Sense of Violence / Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Philippe Bourgois -- Pt. I. Conquest and Colonialism -- 1. From Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- 2. Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture / Michael Taussig -- 3. From Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America / Theodora Kroeber -- 4. Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 5. Tribal Warfare / R. Brian Ferguson -- 6. From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass / Robert J. Gordon -- Pt. II. The Holocaust -- 7. Right of Death and Power Over Life / Michael Foucault -- 8. The Gray Zone / Primo Levi -- 9. From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil / Hannah Arendt -- 10. Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre / Christopher R. Browning -- 11. From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- 12. From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began / Art Spiegelman -- Pt. III. The Politics of Communal Violence -- 13. From "Hellhounds" / Leon F. Litwack -- 14. From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania / Liisa H. Malkki -- 15. From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda / Philip Gourevitch -- Pt. IV. Why Do People Kill? -- 16. Behavioral Study of Obedience / Stanley Milgram -- 17. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage / Renato Rosaldo -- 18. Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Pt. V. The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars -- 19. Talking Terror / Michael Taussig -- 20. Bodies, Death, and Silence / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 21. Living in a State of Fear / Linda Green -- 22. Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children / Jean Franco -- 23. The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War / Antonius Robben -- 24. On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King / Allen Feldman -- 25. The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11 / Noam Chomsky -- 26. Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/11 / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Pt. VI. Violence and Political Resistance -- 27. Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth / Jean-Paul Sartre -- 28. From On Violence / Hannah Arendt -- 29. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence / Begona Aretxaga -- 30. Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Pt. VII. Peacetime Crimes: Everyday Violence -- 31. Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege / Michael Taussig -- 32. Symbolic Violence / Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant -- 33. Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 34. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below / Paul Farmer -- 35. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua / James Quesada -- 36. "The Lower Classes Smell," from The Road to Wigan Pier / George Orwell -- 37. US Inner-city Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence / Philippe Bourgois -- 38. Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave / Eric Klinenberg -- 39. The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto / Loic Wacquant -- Pt. VIII. Gendered Violence -- 40. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain / Veena Das -- 41. From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War / Mark Danner -- 42. Gendered and Symbolic Violence / Pierre Bourdieu -- 43. The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape / Philippe Bourgois -- 44. Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks / Stephen Donaldson -- 45. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals / Carol Cohn -- Pt. IX. Torture -- 46. From The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World / Elaine Scarry -- 47. From Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror / Judith Herman -- 48. The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms / Antjie Krog -- 49. The Treatment of Children in the 'Dirty War': Ideology, State Terrorism, and the Abuse of Children in Argentina / Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco -- Pt. X. Witnessing/Writing Violence -- 50. From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began / Art Spiegelman -- 51. Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru / Orin Starn -- 52. From War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents / Mark Pedelty -- 53. With Genet in the Palestinian Field / Ted Swedenburg -- 54. The Anthropologist as Terrorist / Joseba Zulaika -- 55. An Alternative Anthropology: Exercising the Preferential Option for the Poor / Leigh Binford -- 56. The Continuum of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador / Philippe Bourgois -- Pt. XI. Aftermaths -- 57. The Witness / Giorgio Agamben -- 58. Colonial War and Mental Disorders / Frantz Fanon -- 59. From The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter / Albie Sachs -- 60. Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South Africa / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 61. From When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda / Mahmood Mamdani -- 62. From The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness / Wole Soyinka. |