Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark society's contemporary condition. Sept. 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. The book's 27 chapters, researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities, document violence in 22 distinct cultural settings in 17 nation-states on five continents. Internal to each society, a number of sites of violence may thrive, from the domestic sphere to social institutions and political arenas. In whatever site or guise, violence reverberates throughout the social fabric and beyond.
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction: The Careless Feeding of Violence in Culture, by Myrdene Anderson and Cara Richards
Part One: Children and Women First? Violence Close to Home
II. Violence Absorbed: Lives of Children in an American City, by Linda McDonald
III. School Power, Children’s Play, and the Timing of Recess Violence, by Anna Richman Beresin
IV. Growing Up with Violence in Northern Ireland: Making Meaning of Institutionalized Violence, by Linda J. Rogers
V. Believed and Not Believed: Community Reaction to Rape in Mexico and the U.S., by Cathy Winkler
VI. “Here the Cock Does Not Crow, For He Is Not the Lord of the Land”: Machismo, Insecurity, and Male Violence in Brazil, by Sarah Hautzinger
VII. Transformations in Domestic Violence and Conflict Resolution within a Midwestern U.S. Nuer Refugee Community, by Jon D. Holtzman
Part Two: Social Regulation of Anti-Social Behavior
VIII. Violent Crime and the Loss of Fathers: Beyond the Long Arm, by Wade C. Mackey
IX. The Godmother as Mediator: Constraining Violence in a Zapotec Village of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Nicole Sault
X. Honor and Violence in a Brazilian Slum: Gendered Checks and Balances in the Politics of Everyday Life, by Claudia Fonseca
XI. Reprimand and Respect, Love and Fear in Experiences of Violence in Colombia, by Myriam Jimeno
XII. The Paradox of Politeness, by Dov Cohen and Joe Vandello
Part Three: Institutional Architectures Mediating and Memorializing Violence
XIII. Violence by the Book: Redefining the Legitimate Use of Force in Municipal Policing, by Steven V. Lutes and Michael J. Sullivan
XIV. Fortunes of War: From Primitive Warfare to Nuclear Policy in Anthropological Thought, by Barton C. Hacker
XV. Combat, Emotions, and the “Enemy”: Metaphors of Soldiering in a Unit of Israeli Infantry Reserves, by Eyal Ben-Ari
XVI. Being Broken in the Marines: The Social Construction of Belonging in the U.S. Marine Corps, by Rhonda J. Moore
XVII. Epistemic Violence, Smear-Campaigns, and Hit-Lists: Disappearing the Palestinians, by Nada Elia
XVIII. Violence Within and Against the Pacific, by Katerina Teaiwa
XIX. Liberation, De-Liberations, and Stallings, Or, Is the “Post”-Here Yet?, by Nada Elia
Part Four: Escalating Ecologies of Perturbation
XX. Violence in Madura: The Interplay of Resource, Culture, and History, by Glenn Smith
XXI. Ambivalent Exchanges: The Violence of Patronazgo in the Upper Amazon, by Bartholomew Dean
XXII. Taiwan’s Consumerism, Gangs, and Violence, by Charles Trappey
XXIII. Intended Social Effects of a Culture of Impunity: The Case of Guatemala, by Frank M. Afflitto
XXIV. Political Violence and the Public Eye, by Glen Perice
XXV. Violence as Culture: “Educating” Political Prisoners in Romania, by Gila Safran Naveh
XXVI. The Moral Cycle of Egoistic and Altruistic Violence: A Century of Bloodshed in Colombia, by Mario Fandino
Part Five: Loose Ends: Reflections and Epilogue
XXVII. Reflections on the Saami at Loose Ends, by Myrdene Anderson
XXVIII. Epilogue: Denaturing Cultural Violence, by Myrdene Anderson
Contributors
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