TERROR AND VIOLENCE: Imagination and the Unimaginable
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0745323995
Category
Publication Year
2006
Publisher
PLUTO PRESS, United States
Subject
Terrorism; Terrorism -- Anthropology; Terrorism -- Social aspects; Violence; Violence -- Anthropology; Violence -- Social aspects;
Abstract
What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experience and history? This volume offers a number of timely and original anthropological insights into the ways in which acts of terror -- and reactions to those acts -- impact on the lives of virtually everyone in the world today, as perpetrators, victims or witnesses.As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, what we have come to regard as acts of terror -- whether politically motivated, or state-sanctioned -- have assumed many different forms and provoked widely differing responses throughout the world.At a deeper level, the contributors explore the work of the imagination in extreme contexts of danger, such as those of terror and terrorism. By stressing the role of the imagination, and its role in amplifying the effects of experience, this collection brings together a coherent set of analyses that offer innovative and unexpected ways of understanding a major global problem of contemporary life.
Biblio Notes
CONTENTS
Introduction: Terror, the Imagination, and Cosmology
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart ……………………….....................p. 1
1 'Terror against Terror': 9/11 or 'Kano War' in .
the Nigerian Electronic Press? Misty L. Bastian …………………………...........p. 40
2 Unspeakable Crimes: Athenian Greek Perceptions of
Local and International Terrorism Elisabeth Kirtsoglou ……………………........p. 61
3 The Indian State, its Sikh Citizens, and Terror Joyce Pettigrew……….p. 89
4 Between Victims and Assailants, Victims and Friends:
Sociality and the Imagination in Indo-Fijian Narratives of
Rural Violence during the May 2000 Fiji Coup Susanna Trnka …………….p. 117
5 Narratives of Violence and Perils of Peace-Making in North-South
Cross-Border Contexts, Ireland Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart …p. 142
6 The Sign of Kanaima, the Space of Guayana, and
the Demonology of Development Neil L. Whitehead …………………...p. 171
7 Imaginary Violence and the Terrible Mother:
The Imagery of Balinese Witchcraft Michele Stephen …………………...p. 192
Afterword: The Taste of Death Neil L. Whitehead …………………...p. 231
Notes on Contributors ……………………………………………….................p. 239
Index …………………………………………………………………...p. 241
Introduction: Terror, the Imagination, and Cosmology
Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart ……………………….....................p. 1
1 'Terror against Terror': 9/11 or 'Kano War' in .
the Nigerian Electronic Press? Misty L. Bastian …………………………...........p. 40
2 Unspeakable Crimes: Athenian Greek Perceptions of
Local and International Terrorism Elisabeth Kirtsoglou ……………………........p. 61
3 The Indian State, its Sikh Citizens, and Terror Joyce Pettigrew……….p. 89
4 Between Victims and Assailants, Victims and Friends:
Sociality and the Imagination in Indo-Fijian Narratives of
Rural Violence during the May 2000 Fiji Coup Susanna Trnka …………….p. 117
5 Narratives of Violence and Perils of Peace-Making in North-South
Cross-Border Contexts, Ireland Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart …p. 142
6 The Sign of Kanaima, the Space of Guayana, and
the Demonology of Development Neil L. Whitehead …………………...p. 171
7 Imaginary Violence and the Terrible Mother:
The Imagery of Balinese Witchcraft Michele Stephen …………………...p. 192
Afterword: The Taste of Death Neil L. Whitehead …………………...p. 231
Notes on Contributors ……………………………………………….................p. 239
Index …………………………………………………………………...p. 241
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