Violence in War and Peace

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley where she also directs doctoral studies in "Medicine, Science and the Body". As a critical anthropologist and outspoken public intellectual, Scheper-Hughes s lifework concerns the violence of everyday life from analyses of madness among "leftover" bachelors farmers in rural Ireland; the madness of hunger and the experience of mothering in Northeast Brazil; AIDS and sexual citizenship in Cuba, Brazil and the United States; violence, truth and justice in the New South Africa; death squads, democracy, and the execution of Brazilian street children, to the global traffic in human organs. She is best known for her ethnographies, Death Without Weeping (l992) and Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics (l979, new, updated edition 2000). She has been the recipient of many awards and prizes including a Guggenheim, the Staley Prize, the Margaret Mead Award, the Wellcome Medal, the Bryce Wood Book Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award, and the Pietre Prize. Philippe Bourgois is Professor and Chair of the Medical Anthropology Program at the University of California, San Francisco. His most recent book, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (1995) was awarded the C. Wright Mills Prize and the Margaret Mead Prize. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on political violence, ethnic conflict, immigration and labor relations, and street children and has published several dozen academic and popular media articles on political and intimate violence as well as on substance abuse, inner-city poverty and ethnic conflict.

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject,
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence.
Brings together a sweeping collection of readings, drawn from a remarkable range of sources, that look at various conceptions and modes of violence.
Juxtaposes the routine violence of everyday life against the sudden outcropping of extraordinary violence such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the state violence of Argentina's Dirty War, and organized criminal violence.
Edited by two of the most prominent researchers in the field.
Offers a thought-provoking tool for students and thinkers from all walks of life: an exploration of violence at the broadest levels: personal, social, and political.

Brings together a sweeping collection of readings, drawn from a remarkable range of sources, that look at various conceptions and modes of violence.

Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Making Sense of Violence (Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois) .

Part I: Conquest and Colonialism.

1. From Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad).

2. Culture of Terror-Space of Death: Roger Casement s Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture (Michael Taussig).

3. From Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Theodora Kroeber).

4. Ishi s Brain, Ishi s Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

5. Tribal Warfare (R. Brian Ferguson).

6. From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass (Robert J.Gordon) .

Part II: The Holocaust .

7. Right of Death and Power Over Life (Michel Foucault).

8. The Gray Zone (Primo Levi).

9. From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt).

10. Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jó;zefó;w Massacre (Christopher R. Browning).

11. From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski).

12. From Maus: A Survivor s Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman) .

Part III: The Politics of Communal Violence .

13. From "Hellhounds" (Leon F. Litwack).

14. From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (Liisa Malkki).

15. From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Philip Gourevitch) .

Part IV: Why do People Kill? .

16. Behavioral Study of Obedience (Stanley Milgram).

17. Grief and a Headhunter s Rage (Renato Rosaldo).

18. Why did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor (Alexander Laban Hinton) .

Part V: The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars.

19. Talking Terror (Michael Taussig).

20. Bodies, Death and Silence (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

21. Living in a State of Fear (Linda Green).

22. Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children (Jean Franco).

23. The Fear of Indifference: Combatants Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina s Dirty War (Antonius Robben).

24. On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King (Allen Feldman).

25. The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11 (Noam Chomsky).

26. Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/1l (Nancy Scheper-Hughes) .

Part VI: Violence and Political Resistance.

27. Preface to Frantz Fanon s Wretched of the Earth (Jean-Paul Sartre).

28. From On Violence (Hannah Arendt).

29. Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence (Begoñ;a Aretxaga).

30. Who s the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp (Nancy Scheper-Hughes) .

Part VII: Peace Time Crimes: Everyday Violence .

31. Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin s Theory of History as State of Siege (Michael Taussig).

32. Symbolic Violence (Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant).

33. Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).

34. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below (Paul Farme).

35. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua (James Quesada).

36. "The Lower Classes Smell," from The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell).

37. U.S. Inner City Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence (Philippe Bourgois).

38. Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave (Eric Klinenberg).

39. The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto (Loic Wacquant) .

Part VIII: Gendered Violence .

40. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain (Veena Das).

41. From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (Mark Danner).

42. Gender and Symbolic Violence (Pierre Bourdieu).

43. The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape (Philippe Bourgois).

44. Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks (Stephen Donaldson).

45. Sex and