Meanings of Violence : A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Hardcover)

Preface: Violation and Violence as Cultural Phenomena, Introduction: The Idiom of Violence in Imagery and Discourse 1 The Enigma of Senseless Violence 2 'Criminals by Instinct': On the 'Tragedy' of Social Structure and the 'Violence' of lndividual Creativity 3 Ritual, Violence and Social Order: An Approach to Spanish Bullfighting 4 Restoring the Balance: Violence and Culture Among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia 5 Tolerating the Intolerable: Cattle Raiding Among the Kuria of Kenya 6 Rethinking 'Violence' in Chinese Culture 7 Butchering Fish and Executing Criminals: Public Executions and the Meanings of Violence in Late Imperial and Modem China, 8 The 'Tradition of Violence' in Colombia: Material and Symbolic Aspects