Author: Andrew Strathern
Several Contributors/
Translator(s)/ Edito: Pamela J Stewart/Neil L Whitehead
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 250
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125032436
Description
What is terror? What are its roots and its results – and what part does it play in human experience and history? This volume offers a number of timely and original anthropological insights into the ways in which acts – impact on the lives of virtually everyone in the world today, as perpetrators, victims or witnesses.
As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, what we have come to regard as terror – whether politically motivated or state sanctioned – have assumed many different forms and provoked widely differing responses throughout the world.
At a deeper level, the contributors explore the work of the imagination in extreme contexts of danger, such as those of terror and terrorism. By stressing the imagination, and its role in amplifying the effects of experience, this collection brings together a coherent set of analyses that offer innovative and unexpected ways of understanding a major global problem of contemporary life.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Terror, the Imagination, and Cosmology
ANDREW STRATHERN / PAMELA J STEWART
‘Terror against Terror’: 9/11 or ‘Kano War’ in the
Nigerian Electronic Press?
MISTY L. BASTIAN
Unspeakable Crimes: Athenian Greek perceptions of
Local and International Terrorism
ELISABETH KIRTSOGLOU
The Indian state, its Sikh Citizens, and Terror
JOYCE PETTIGREW
Between victims and Assailants, Victims and Friends:
Sociality and the Imagination in Indo-Fijian Narratives
Of Rural Violence during the May 2000 Fiji Coup
SUSANNA TRNKA
Narratives of Violence and Perils of Peace-Making in
North-South Cross-Border Contexts, Ireland
ANDREW STRATHERN / PAMELA J STEWART
The Sign of Kanaima, the Space of Guayana, and
The Demonology of Development
NEIL L WHITEHEAD
Imaginary Violence and the Terrible Mother:
The Imagery of Balinese Witchcraft
MICHELE STEPHEN
Afterward: The Taste of Death
NEL L WHITEHEAD
Notes on Contributors
Index