Description: Meanings of Violence : A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Hardcover by Aijmer, Goran (EDT); Abbink, Jon (EDT), ISBN 1859734359, ISBN-13 9781859734353, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults, feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social 's contributors identify the symbolic and ritualized aspects of violence, and suggest ways of 'reading' violence as it occurs in the world, whether as violent duelling and age-group violence in Southern Ethiopia, bullfighting in Iberia, cattle rustling in Kenya, guerrilla and militia wars in Colombia, or public executions in case studies suggest that 'violence' is not a simple, universal urge, but is contingent and context-dependent, shaped by social relations of power, force and dominance. To be the victim of violence is a humiliating and frightening experience. But the many ambiguities that occur in the use of violence must be considered, to understand why peace seems only to exist as a contrast to the violation of peace.
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Book Title: Meanings of Violence : A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Meanings of Violence: a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2000
Subject: Anthropology
Item Height: 216 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Jon Abbink, Goeran Aijmer
Subject Area: Sexual Abuse
Item Width: 138 mm
Format: Hardcover
