Violence: Ethnographic Encounters / Edition 1

by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi

Overview

Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in shaping human experience and a central theme in anthropological study. Violence: Ethnographic Encounters presents a set of vivid first-hand accounts of fieldwork experiences of violence. The examples range across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and illustrate instances of state terror, insurgency, communal violence, war, prison violence, class conflict, security measures, and sexual violence. How do these anthropologists come to know a place through such violent experience? Why do they not leave such scenes? What insights follow from such experience? Violence: Ethnographic Encounters offers readers a broad anthropological study of violence through personal encounters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847884169
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2009
Series:	Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, USA.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsPreface, John BornemanIntroduction, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi1Written on My Body, Billie Jean Isbell2Bandh in Ahmedabad, Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi3Fieldwork and Fear in Iraqi Kurdistan, Diane E. King 4The Sense of War Songs, Bilinda Straight5Sleeping with One Eye Open, Kristen Drybread6Hell of a Party, Brenda Maiale7Arriving in Jewish Buenos Aires, Natasha Zaretsky8Dreamwork and Punishment in Lebanon, John Borneman9Unwelcomed and Unwelcoming Encounter, Annarose Pandey10Guide to Further Reading, Parvis Ghassem-FachandiBibliographyIndex

Editorial Reviews

This is an essential book in Berg's important 'Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge' series, which addresses crucial yet little discussed concerns in ethnographic experience... The series editor instructed the authors to write atheoretically, to provide personal accounts. Each essay superbly accomplishes this directive, which makes these readings so penetrating... Compelling, riveting reading that will prove important to researchers... Essential.” —Choice

From the Publisher

This is an essential book in Berg's important 'Encounters: Experience and Anthropological Knowledge' series, which addresses crucial yet little discussed concerns in ethnographic experience... The series editor instructed the authors to write atheoretically, to provide personal accounts. Each essay superbly accomplishes this directive, which makes these readings so penetrating... Compelling, riveting reading that will prove important to researchers... Essential.

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