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Terror and Violence : Imagination and the Unimaginable.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology, Culture and Society SeriesPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849642750
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Terror and ViolenceDDC classification:
  • 303.625
LOC classification:
  • HV6431.T4563 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TERROR, THE IMAGINATION, AND COSMOLOGY -- 1 'TERROR AGAINST TERROR': 9/11 OR 'KANO WAR' IN THE NIGERIAN ELECTRONIC PRESS? -- 2 UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES: ATHENIAN GREEK PERCEPTIONS OF LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM -- 3 THE INDIAN STATE, ITS SIKH CITIZENS, AND TERROR -- 4 BETWEEN VICTIMS AND ASSAILANTS, VICTIMS AND FRIENDS: SOCIALITY AND THE IMAGINATION IN INDO-FIJIAN NARRATIVES OF RURAL VIOLENCE DURING THE MAY 2000 FIJI COUP1 -- 5 NARRATIVES OF VIOLENCE AND PERILS OF PEACE-MAKING IN NORTH-SOUTH CROSS-BORDER CONTEXTS, IRELAND -- 6 THE SIGN OF KANAIMÀ, THE SPACE OF GUAYANA, AND THE DEMONOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT -- 7 IMAGINARY VIOLENCE AND THE TERRIBLE MOTHER: THE IMAGERY OF BALINESE WITCHCRAFT1 -- AFTERWORD THE TASTE OF DEATH -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Summary: Examines the social impact of terror -- how it provokes different responses in perpetrators, victims and observers.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TERROR, THE IMAGINATION, AND COSMOLOGY -- 1 'TERROR AGAINST TERROR': 9/11 OR 'KANO WAR' IN THE NIGERIAN ELECTRONIC PRESS? -- 2 UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES: ATHENIAN GREEK PERCEPTIONS OF LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM -- 3 THE INDIAN STATE, ITS SIKH CITIZENS, AND TERROR -- 4 BETWEEN VICTIMS AND ASSAILANTS, VICTIMS AND FRIENDS: SOCIALITY AND THE IMAGINATION IN INDO-FIJIAN NARRATIVES OF RURAL VIOLENCE DURING THE MAY 2000 FIJI COUP1 -- 5 NARRATIVES OF VIOLENCE AND PERILS OF PEACE-MAKING IN NORTH-SOUTH CROSS-BORDER CONTEXTS, IRELAND -- 6 THE SIGN OF KANAIMÀ, THE SPACE OF GUAYANA, AND THE DEMONOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT -- 7 IMAGINARY VIOLENCE AND THE TERRIBLE MOTHER: THE IMAGERY OF BALINESE WITCHCRAFT1 -- AFTERWORD THE TASTE OF DEATH -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

Examines the social impact of terror -- how it provokes different responses in perpetrators, victims and observers.

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