Violence Expressed: An Anthropological Approach

by Nerina Weiss, Maria Six-Hohenbalken

Overview

Violence Expressed explores the diverse expressions and manifestations through which the meaning of violent experiences and events is (re)produced. As language alone does not always suffice for the description of violence, this book focuses not only on the verbal and discursive expressions of violence, but also on the performative acts, material culture and the spaces that constitute these expressions. Such an approach provides a method of more comprehensively registering and understanding the manifestations and long-lasting effects of violence, whilst exploring violence both as an extreme subjective experience, and the ‘ultimate truth’, thus overcoming a common epistemological antagonism in researching violence.

Offering a variety of analytical approaches and methodological perspectives, Violence Expressed presents the latest empirical studies, ranging from the 'everyday' violence experienced by children, stories of rape, social memory and the discrepancy between private and public narratives, to rumours and silences or the iconography of violence. A compelling contribution to ongoing discussions on anthropological writing, this book will be of interest to anthropologists and social scientists working on violence, gender, collective representations and memory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409492870
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	12/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Maria Six-Hohenbalken is a researcher at the Research Unit for Social Anthropology at the Center for Asian Studies and Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Nerina Weiss is a research fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Nerina Weiss and Maria Six-Hohenbalken; Part I Normalization and Aesthetics: The utter normalization of violence: silence, memory and impunity among the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska, Linda Green; Warriors of honour, warriors of faith: two historical male role models from south-western Arabia, Andre Gingrich; Public events and the Japanese self-defense forces: aesthetics, ritual density and the normalization of military violence, Eyal Ben-Ari; Aesthetics of martyrdom: the celebration of violent death among the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Øivind Fugelrud. Part II Discursive Strategies – Muted Language: When soldiers explain: discursive strategies used by Israeli conscripts when recounting their experiences in the field, Erella Grassiani; Tense relations: dealing with narratives of violence in eastern Turkey, Nerina Weiss; Speaking blood: metaphoric expressions of sexual violence in a Guadeloupian family, Janine Klungel; Expressed, muted and silenced: Mestizo childhood and everyday violence in a marginal neighbourhood in Quito, Ecuador, Esben Leifsen. Part III Remembering and Aftermath: Silence, denial and confession about state terror by the Argentine military, Antonius C.G.M. Robben; From traumatic history to embodied memory: a methodological challenge to anthropologists, Adelheid Pichler; 'All filmmaking is a form of therapy': visualising memories of war violence in the animation film Waltz with Bashir (2008), Michaela Schäuble; Blurred boundaries in World War I: strategies of censorship, denial and the role of witness accounts, Maria Six-Hohenbalken; Index.