The Practice of War

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologists who write of war as participant observers. Participant observation inevitably deals with the here and now, with the highly specific. It is only over the long view that one can begin to see the commonalities that emerge from the different forms of conflict and can begin to generalize. [From the Introduction] More needs to be understood about the ways of war and its effects. What implications does war have for people, their lived-in communities and larger political systems; how do they cope and adjust in war situations and how do they deal with the changed world that they inhabit once peace is declared? Through a series of essays that move from looking at the nature of violence to the peace processes that follow it, this important book provides some answers to these questions. It also analyzes those new dimensions of social interaction, such as the internet, which now provide a bridge between local concerns and global networks and are fundamentally altering the practices of war.

The late Aparna Rao spent many years doing ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan, Kashmir and in western India, and published several books and papers based on her research.

Michael Bollig is a Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He has conducted fieldwork in northern Kenya and northern Namibia with pastoral communities. He is interested in the dynamics of human-environment relations and socio-economic change in rural communities. Conflict management and the socio-cultural processes connected to violence are a second focus of his work. He recently published Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment. A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies (Springer/New York 2005). He is the chairperson of the interdisciplinary ACACIA programme (Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa).

Monika B÷ck is a Social Anthropologist, affiliated with the University of Cologne. She has conducted fieldwork among a matrilineal community in North-Eastern India. She is interested in kinship & gender studies, cognitive anthropology, and the medializaon of war and violence. Together with Aparna Rao she published Culture Creation and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice (Berghahn Books 2000).

List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: The Practice of War	p. 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	p. 23
Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern Ethiopia	p. 53
Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western Uganda	p. 73
Memory, Trauma and Redemption
Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940	p. 89
Trauma, Therapy and Responsibility: Psychology and War in Contemporary Israel	p. 111
'I Shall be Waiting for You at the Door of Paradise': The Pakistani Martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)	p. 133
Organizing, Encouraging and Dissuading: The Uses of Kinship, Gender and Religion
Is War Gendered? Issues in Representing Women and the Second World War	p. 161
Judging by Aesthetics: 'Due Care' in the Management of 'Collaboration' in the First Palestinian Intifada	p. 175
Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-e Taiba	p. 215
The Inscription of War in Mediated Worlds
In the Combat Zone	p. 241
'Virtual' Discourse and the Creation and Disruption of Social Networks: Observations on the War in Kashmir in Cyberspace	p. 253
Martyrs, Victims, Friends and Foes: Internet Representations by Palestinian Islamists	p. 285
Mapping a Conflict in Cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWW	p. 305
Peace Building at the Crossroads: Appropriations of War, Ambivalences of Interest
Violence and Peace Processes	p. 325
Index	p. 341
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