Death Squad : : The Anthropology of State Terror / / ed. by Jeffrey A. Sluka.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Aditjondro, George J.,; Afflitto, Frank M.,; Aretxaga, Begoña,; Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley,; McKenna, Thomas M.,; Pettigrew, Joyce,; Robben, Antonius C. G. M.,; Sluka, Jeffrey A.,; Warren, Kay B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Sluka, Jeffrey A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 8 illus.

"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."-Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthro...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction. State Terror and Anthropology
• Chapter 1. A Fictional Reality Paramilitary Death Squads and the Construction of State Terror in Spain
• Chapter 2. Trials by Fire. Dynamics of Terror in Punjab and Kashmir
• Chapter 3. State Terror in the Netherworld. Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina
• Chapter 4. The Homogenizing Effects of State-Sponsored Terrorism. The Case of Guatemala
• Chapter 5. "For God and Ulster". The Culture of Terror and Loyalist Death Squads in Northern Ireland
• Chapter 6. Ninjas, IManggalas, Monuments, and Mossad Manuals. An Anthropology of Indonesian State Terror in East Timor
• Chapter 7. Murdered or Martyred? Popular Evaluations of Violent Death in the Muslim Separatist Movement in the Philippines
• Chapter 8. Parents and Their Children in Situations of Terror. Disappearances and Special Police Activity in Punjab
• Conclusion. Death Squads and Wider Complicities. Dilemmas for the Anthropology of Violence
• Contributors
• Index