The Practice of War : : Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence / / ed. by Aparna Rao, Monika Böck, Michael Bollig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abbink, Jon,; Abou Zahab, Mariam,; Behrend, Heike,; Ben-Ari, Eyal,; Bollig, Michael,; Böck, Monika,; Colson, Elizabeth,; Darby, John,; Gewald, Jan-Bart,; Jean-Klein, Iris,; Kirchner, Henner,; Lomsky-Feder, Edna,; Martin, Elaine,; Pauli, Julia,; Rao, Aparna,; Schnegg, Michael,; Schneider, Katharina,; Sikand, Yoginder,; Young, Marilyn B.,; Österle, Matthias,
• HerausgeberIn: Bollig, Michael,; Böck, Monika,; Rao, Aparna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES --; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION THE PRACTICE OF WAR --; 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 --; CHAPTER 2 CULTURE SLIPPING AWAY: VIOLENCE, SOCIAL TENSION AND PERSONAL DRAMA IN SURI SOCIETY, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA --; CHAPTER 3 CATHOLICS AND CANNIBALS: TERROR AND HEALING IN TOORO, WESTERN UGANDA --; PART II MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTION --; CHAPTER 4 COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER: THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, 1904–1940 --; CHAPTER 5 TRAUMA, THERAPY AND RESPONSIBILITY: PSYCHOLOGY AND WAR IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL --; 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) --; 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 --; CHAPTER 8 JUDGING BY AESTHETICS: ‘DUE CARE’ IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ‘COLLABORATION’ IN THE FIRST PALESTINIAN INTIFADA --; CHAPTER 9 ISLAMIST MILITANCY IN KASHMIR: THE CASE OF THE LASHKAR-E TAIBA --; PART IV THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDS --; CHAPTER 10 IN THE COMBAT ZONE --; CHAPTER 11 ‘VIRTUAL’ DISCOURSE AND THE CREATION AND DISRUPTION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE WAR IN KASHMIR IN CYBERSPACE --; CHAPTER 12 MARTYRS, VICTIMS, FRIENDS AND FOES: INTERNET REPRESENTATIONS BY PALESTINIAN ISLAMISTS --; CHAPTER 13 MAPPING A CONFLICT IN CYBERSPACE: CHIAPAS ON THE WWW --; PART V PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVALENCES OF INTEREST --; CHAPTER 14 VIOLENCE AND PEACE PROCESSES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450593; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450593
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Aparna Rao, Monika Böck, Michael Bollig.

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.