" A]n admirable example of how social anthropologists may
contribute to understandings of conflicts and armed violence as
complex and articulated social processes" . Ethos
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."
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