Anthropology 2013

The War in Darfur

Reclaiming Sudanese History

By Anders Hastrup

Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society

No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West during the past 10 years as the war in Darfur, yet the underlying complexities of the war and the background to the crisis remains poorly understood by scholars, activists and aid workers. This anthropological study of the war in...

Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge

War and the Body

Militarisation, Practice and Experience

Edited by Kevin McSorley

Series: War, Politics and Experience

This edited volume places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war and its consequences. War is fundamentally embodied. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means but politics incarnate, politics written on and experienced through the thinking, feeling bodies of men and...

Published October 7th 2012 by Routledge

Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka

By Jane Derges

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka’s longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity...

Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal

Identities and Mobilization after 1990

Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Susan Hangen

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist...

Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge

Life as a Weapon

The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings

By Riaz Hassan

Suicide bombing has become a weapon of choice among terrorist groups because of its lethality and ability to cause mayhem and fear. But who carries out these acts, and what motivates them? By undertaking analysis of the information in the most comprehensive suicide terrorism database in the world,...

Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

Edited by Bettina Schmidt, Ingo Schroeder

Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such...

Published February 21st 2001 by Routledge

Troubled Times

Violence and Warfare in the Past

Edited by David W. Frayer, Debra L. Martin

Series: War and Society - ISSN 1069-8043

Evidence amassed in Troubled Times indicates that, much like in the modern world, violence was not an uncommon aspect of prehistoric dispute resolution. From the civilizations of the American Southwest to the Mesolithic of Central Europe, the contributors examine violence in hunter-gatherer as well...

Published January 22nd 1998 by Routledge