Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology Book

	About the Editors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Making Sense of Violence	1
Pt. I	Conquest and Colonialism	33
1	From Heart of Darkness	35
2	Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture	39
3	From Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America	54
4	Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide	61
5	Tribal Warfare	69
6	From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass	74
Pt. II	The Holocaust	77
7	Right of Death and Power Over Life	79
8	The Gray Zone	83
9	From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil	91
10	Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre	101
11	From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen	109
12	From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began	118
Pt. III	The Politics of Communal Violence	121
13	From "Hellhounds"	123
14	From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania	129
15	From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda	136
Pt. IV	Why Do People Kill?	143
16	Behavioral Study of Obedience	145
17	Grief and a Headhunter's Rage	150
18	Why Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark Side of Face and Honor	157
Pt. V	The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars	169
19	Talking Terror	171
20	Bodies, Death, and Silence	175
21	Living in a State of Fear	186
22	Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children	196
23	The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War	200
24	On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King	207
25	The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11	217
26	Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/11	224
Pt. VI	Violence and Political Resistance	227
27	Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth	229
28	From On Violence	236
29	Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence	244
30	Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp	253
Pt. VII	Peacetime Crimes: Everyday Violence	267
31	Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege	269
32	Symbolic Violence	272
33	Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death	275
34	On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below	281
35	Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua	290
36	"The Lower Classes Smell," from The Road to Wigan Pier	297
37	US Inner-city Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence	301
38	Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave	308
39	The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto	318
Pt. VIII	Gendered Violence	325
40	Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain	327
41	From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War	334
42	Gendered and Symbolic Violence	339
43	The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape	343
44	Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks	348
45	Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals	354
Pt. IX	Torture	363
46	From The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World	365
47	From Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror	368
48	The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms	372
49	The Treatment of Children in the 'Dirty War': Ideology, State Terrorism, and the Abuse of Children in Argentina	378
Pt. X	Witnessing/Writing Violence	389
50	From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began	391
51	Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru	395
52	From War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents	402
53	With Genet in the Palestinian Field	410
54	The Anthropologist as Terrorist	416
55	An Alternative Anthropology: Exercising the Preferential Option for the Poor	420
56	The Continuum of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador	425
Pt. XI	Aftermaths	435
57	The Witness	437
58	Colonial War and Mental Disorders	443
59	From The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter	453
60	Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South Africa	459
61	From When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda	468
62	From The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness	475
	Index	478