Violence Expressed An Anthropological Approach [Hardcover]

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.Contents: Introduction, Nerina Weiss and Maria Six-Hohenbalken; Part I Normalization and Aesthetics: The utter normalization of violence: silence, memory and impunity among the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska, Linda Green; Warriors of honour, warriors of faith: two historical male role models from south-western Arabia, Andre Gingrich; Public events and the Japanese self-defense forces: aesthetics, ritual density and the normalization of military violence, Eyal Ben-Ari; Aesthetics of martyrdom: the celebration of violent death among the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ??ivind Fugelrud. Part II Discursive Strategies - Muted Language: When soldiers explain: discursive strategies used by Israeli conscriplsO