The practice of war :  production, reproduction and communication of armed violence / 
edited by Aparna Rao, Michael Bollig and Monika Böck ; [with an introduction by Elisabeth Colson]. 
 - xvii, 346 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
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<br/><br/>Introduction: The practice of war / Elisabeth Colson -- pt. 1: Changing qualities of violence: case studies from Africa. 'We turned our enemies into baboons': warfare, ritual and pastoral identity among the Pokot of northern Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias Österle -- Culture slipping away: violence, social tension and personal drama in Suri society, southern Ethiopia / Jon Abbink -- Catholics and cannibals: terror and healing in Tooro, western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- pt. 2: Memory, trauma and redemption. Coming through slaughter: the Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 / Jan-Bart Gewald -- Trauma, therapy and responsibility: psychology and war in contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari -- 'I shall be waiting for you at the door of paradise': the Pakistani martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure) / Mariam Abou Zahab -- pt. 3: Organizing, encouraging and dissuading: the uses of kinship, gender and religion. Is war gendered? Issues in representing women and the Second World War / Elaine Martin -- Judging by aesthetics: 'due care' in the management of 'collaboration' in the first Palestinian Intifada / Iris Jean-Klein -- Islamist militancy in Kashmir: the case of the Lashkar-e Taiba / Yoginder Sikand -- pt. 4: The inscription of war in mediated worlds. In the combat zone / Marilyn B. Young -- 'Virtual' discourse and the creation and disruption of social networks: observations on the war in Kashmir in cyberspace / Aparna Rao ... [et al.] -- Martyrs, victims, friends and foes: internet representations by Palestinian islamists / Henner Kirchner -- -- Mapping a conflict in cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW / Julia Pauli and Michael Schnegg -- pt. 5: Peace building at the crossroads: appropriations of war, ambivalences of interest. Violence and peace processes / John Darby. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1845452801 9781845452803 (hdb. : alk paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008299236 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA862747  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>014594272  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Şiddet<br/>Violence<br/>War<br/>Savaş<br/>Savaş ve toplum<br/>War and society
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>U21.2  / .P598 2007