Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (Paperback)

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Making Sense of Violence (Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois).

Part I: Conquest and Colonialism.

1. From Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad).

2. Culture of Terror-Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture (Michael Taussig).

3. From Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Theodora Kroeber).

4. Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

5. Tribal Warfare (R. Brian Ferguson).

6. From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass (Robert J.Gordon).

Part II: The Holocaust.

7. Right of Death and Power Over Life (Michel Foucault).

8. The Gray Zone (Primo Levi).

9. From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt).

10. Initiation to Mass Murder: The Józefów Massacre (Christopher R. Browning).

11. From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski).

12. From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman).

Part III: The Politics of Communal Violence.

13. From "Hellhounds" (Leon F. Litwack).

14. From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (Liisa Malkki).

15. From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Philip Gourevitch).

Part IV: Why do People Kill?.

16. Behavioral Study of Obedience (Stanley Milgram).

17. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage (Renato Rosaldo).

18. Why did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor (Alexander Laban Hinton).

Part V: The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars.

19. Talking Terror (Michael Taussig).

20. Bodies, Death and Silence (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

21. Living in a State of Fear (Linda Green).

22. Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children (Jean Franco).

23. The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War (Antonius Robben).

24. On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King (Allen Feldman).

25. The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11 (Noam Chomsky).

26. Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/1l (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

Part VI: Violence and Political Resistance.

27. Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth (Jean-Paul Sartre).

28. From On Violence (Hannah Arendt).

29. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence (Begoña Aretxaga).

30. Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

Part VII: Peace Time Crimes: Everyday Violence.

31. Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege (Michael Taussig).

32. Symbolic Violence (Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant).

33. Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

34. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below (Paul Farme).

35. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua (James Quesada).

36. "The Lower Classes Smell," from The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell).

37. U.S. Inner City Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence (Philippe Bourgois).

38. Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave (Eric Klinenberg).

39. The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto (Loic Wacquant).

Part VIII: Gendered Violence.

40. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain (Veena Das).

41. From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (Mark Danner).

42. Gender and Symbolic Violence (Pierre Bourdieu).

43. The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape (Philippe Bourgois).

44. Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks (Stephen Donaldson).

45. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals (Carol Cohn).

Part IX: Torture.

46. From The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Elaine Scarry).

47. From Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Judith Herman).

48. The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms (Antjie Krog).

49. The Treatment of Children in the 'Dirty War': Ideology, State Terrorism, and the Abuse of Children in Argentina (Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco).

Part X: Witnessing/Writing Violence.

50. From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman).

51. Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru (Orin Starn).

52. From War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents (Mark Pedelty).

53. With Genet in the Palestinian Field (Ted Swedenburg).

54. The Anthropologist as Terrorist (Joseba Zulaika).

55. An Alternative Anthropology: Exercising the Preferential Option for the Poor (Leigh Binford).

56. The Continuum of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador (Philippe Bourgois).

Part XI: Aftermaths.

57. The Witness (Giorgio Agamben).

58. Colonial War and Mental Disorders (Frantz Fanon).

59. From The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (Albie Sachs).

60. Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South Africa (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

61. From When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Mahmood Mamdani).

62. From The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness (Wole Soyinka).

Index.