Violence Expressed: An Anthropological Approach

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Éditeur : Ashgate	Date & Lieu : 2011, England & USA
Préface :	Pages : 252
Traduction :	ISBN : 978-0-7546-7884-7
Langue : Anglais	Format : 160x240mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Six. Vio. N° 2370	Thème : Général

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Violence Expressed: An Anthropological Approach Maria Six-Hohenbalken Nerina Weiss Ashgate Violence Expressed explores the diverse expressions and manifestations through which the meaning of violent experiences and events is (re)produced. As language alone does not always suffice for the description of violence, this book focuses not only on the verbal and discursive expressions of violence, but also on the performative acts, material culture and the spaces that constitute these expressions. Such an approach provides a method of more comprehensively registering and understanding the manifestations and long-lasting effects of violence, whilst exploring violence both as an extreme subjective experience, and the 'ultimate truth', thus overcoming a common epistemological antagonism in researching violence. Offering a variety of analytical approaches and methodological perspectives, Violence Expressed presents the latest empirical studies, ranging from the 'everyday' violence experienced by chiLdren, stories of rape, social memory and the discrepancy between private and public narratives, to rumours and silences or the iconography of violence. A compelling contribution to ongoing discussions on anthropological writing, this book will be of interest to anthropologists and social scientists working on violence, gender, collective representations and memory.

Table des Matières

Contents

List of Figures and Table / vii
Acknowledgements / ix
Notes on Contributors / xi

Introduction / 1
Nerina Weiss and Maria Six-Hohenbalken

Part I: Normalization and Aesthetics
1 The Utter Normalization of Violence:
Silence, Memory and Impunity among the Yup’ik People of Southwestern Alaska / 21
Linda Green
2 Warriors of Honour, Warriors of Faith:
Two Historical Male Role Models from South-Western Arabia / 37
Andre Gingrich
3 Public Events and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces:
Aesthetics, Ritual Density and the Normalization of Military Violence / 55
Eyal Ben-Ari
4 Aesthetics of Martyrdom:
The Celebration of Violent Death among the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam / 71
0ivind Fuglerud

Part II: Discursive Strategies - Muted Language
5 When Soldiers Explain: Discursive Strategies Used by Israeli
Conscripts When Recounting Their Experiences in the Field / 91
Erella Grassiani
6 Tense Relations:
Dealing with Narratives of Violence in Eastern Turkey / 109
Nerina Weiss
7 Speaking Blood:
Metaphoric Expressions of Sexual Violence in a Guadeloupian Family / 129
Janine Klungel
8 Expressed, Muted and Silenced: Mestizo Childhood and Everyday
Violence in a Marginal Neighbourhood in Quito, Ecuador / 147
Esben Leifsen

Part III: Remembering and Aftermath
9 Silence, Denial and Confession about State Terror by the Argentine Military / 169
Antonius C.G.M. Robben
10 From Traumatic History to Embodied Memory:
A Methodological Challenge for Anthropologists / 187
Adelheid Pichler
11 ‘All Filmmaking is a Form of Therapy’:
Visualizing Memories of War Violence in the Animation Film Waltz with Bashir (2008) / 203
Michaela Schauble
12 Blurred Boundaries in World War I:
Strategies of Censorship, Denial and the Role of Witness Accounts / 223
Maria Six-Hohenbalken

Index / 247

List of Figures and Table

Figures
4.1 Children’s playground, LTTE-controlled Jaffna 1995. Source: Fuglerud / 79
4.2 LTTE cemetery, Kopai 1995. Source: Fuglerud / 79

Table
7.1 Isabelle’s ‘Intimate guide of women and young girls’ / 135