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This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly
globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in
Guatemala. The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs,
inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to
understand national and global patterns of mob-based vigilantism
and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of
violence. Gavin Weston critically engages with the discussion of
Guatemalan lynchings as a form of post-conflict violence alongside
other less direct chains of causation. Lynchings have complex,
tiered causations based in contestations regarding ideas and
provision of justice. Underlying social problems and similarities
in the way lynchings spread through talk and media make them
relatively anticipatable in certain contexts and suggest possible
spaces for mitigation against their viral spread. This volume will
be relevant to Latin Americanists and those interested in the
anthropology and sociology of violence, post-conflict violence, and
peace studies.
This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore
the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of
anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity
in "human zoos", Malinowski's diaries, and the Human Terrain System
to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force
for change, how they offer a window into the history of and
research practice in the discipline, and how they might frame wider
debates such as those around reflexivity, cultural relativism, and
the politics of representation. The volume provokes discussion
about research ethics and practice with tangible examples where
gray areas are brought into sharp relief. The controversies
examined in the book all involve moral or practical ambiguities
that offer an opportunity for students to engage with the debate
and the dilemmas faced by anthropologists, both in relation to the
specific incidents covered and to the problems posed more generally
due to the intimate and political implications of ethnographic
research.
Harmattan (n. A dry, dusty wind that blows from the Sahara-
probably from the Arabic haram, a forbidden or accursed thing).
Haoua is a young girl growing up in a remote village in the
Republic of Niger. Spirited independent and intelligent, she has
benefited from a stable home life and a loving and attentive mother
and enjoys working and playing with her siblings and friends. Haoua
worships her elder brother, Abdelkrim, a serving soldier who sends
money home to support the family. But, on his last home visit,
Abdelkrim quarrels with their father accusing him of gambling away
the money he sends and being the cause of their mother's worsening
health. It also emerges that their father plans to take a second
wife. Despite this Haoua finds contentment in her schoolwork, her
dreams of becoming a teacher and in writing assiduously to the
family in Ireland who act as her aid sponsors. But for Haoua, there
are new storm clouds on the horizon: as civil strife mounts in
Niger, she begins to fear for Abdelkrim's safety; Her mother's
illness is much more serious and further advanced than anyone had
recognised; and her father's plans are turning out to be far more
threatening than she could have ever imagined. Approaching her
twelfth birthday, Haoua feels alone and vulnerable for the very
first time in her life.
This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly
globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in
Guatemala. The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs,
inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to
understand national and global patterns of mob-based vigilantism
and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of
violence. Gavin Weston critically engages with the discussion of
Guatemalan lynchings as a form of post-conflict violence alongside
other less direct chains of causation. Lynchings have complex,
tiered causations based in contestations regarding ideas and
provision of justice. Underlying social problems and similarities
in the way lynchings spread through talk and media make them
relatively anticipatable in certain contexts and suggest possible
spaces for mitigation against their viral spread. This volume will
be relevant to Latin Americanists and those interested in the
anthropology and sociology of violence, post-conflict violence, and
peace studies.
This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore
the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of
anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity
in "human zoos", Malinowski's diaries, and the Human Terrain System
to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force
for change, how they offer a window into the history of and
research practice in the discipline, and how they might frame wider
debates such as those around reflexivity, cultural relativism, and
the politics of representation. The volume provokes discussion
about research ethics and practice with tangible examples where
gray areas are brought into sharp relief. The controversies
examined in the book all involve moral or practical ambiguities
that offer an opportunity for students to engage with the debate
and the dilemmas faced by anthropologists, both in relation to the
specific incidents covered and to the problems posed more generally
due to the intimate and political implications of ethnographic
research.
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