Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture - Couverture souple

Nordstrom, Carolyn; Robben, Antonius C. G. M.

 
9780520089945: Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520089944 ISBN 13 : 9780520089945
Editeur : University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate, and the often surprising creative strategies people use to survive.

In "writing violence," the authors give voice to all those affected by the conditions of violence: perpetrators as well as victims, civilians and specialists, black marketeers and heroes, jackals and researchers. Focusing on everyday experiences, these essays bring to light the puzzling contradictions of lives disturbed by violence: the simultaneous existence of laughter and suffering, of fear and hope. By doing so, they challenge the narrow conceptualization that associates violence with death and war, arguing that instead it must be considered a dimension of living.

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À propos de l'auteur

Carolyn Nordstrom, Visiting Scholar in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is the editor of The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror (California, 1992). Antonius C.G.M. Robben, Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, is the author of Sons of the Sea Goddess: Economic Practice and Discursive Conflict in Brazil (1989).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520089944
ISBN 13 
9780520089945
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
308
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0520089936 ISBN 13 :  9780520089938
Editeur : University of California Press, 1996
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