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Meanings of Violence - A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Paperback, First)
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Meanings of Violence - A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Paperback, First)
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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
life.
The book'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 China.
These 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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