No peace, no war : an anthropology of contemporary armed conflicts / edited by Paul Richards.
Richards, Paul, 1945 May 14-; Helander, Bernhard.
2005
GN497 .N6 2005 (Mapit)
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Title No peace, no war : an anthropology of contemporary armed conflicts / edited by Paul Richards.
ISBN 9780821415764 (Ohio Univ. Press: pbk.)
082141576X (Ohio Univ. Press: pbk.)
0821415751 (Ohio Univ. Press)
9780821415757 (Ohio Univ. Press)
0852559364 (J. Currey)
9780852559369 (J. Currey)
0852559356 (J. Currey : pbk.)
9780852559352 (J. Currey : pbk.)
Imprint Athens : Ohio University Press ; Oxford : J. Currey, 2005.
Language English
Description x, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number GN497 .N6 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.6/6
Summary "The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?' For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained." "This book takes a different approach. Anthropologists, who have lived with and through the wars they describe here, reflect a paradoxical assumption that to understand war we must deny it a special status. Rather than quarantine war and leave it to security specialists they grasp its character as but one among many aspects of social reality, organised by social agents, made through social action. All war is long-term struggle organised for political ends, and neither the means nor the ends can be understood without reference to a specific social context."--BOOK JACKET.
Note "In memoriam Bernhard Helander."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Richards, Paul, 1945 May 14-
Helander, Bernhard.
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Obituary of Bernhard Helander / Ioan Lewis, with additional material by Hugh Beach
New war : an ethnographic approach / Paul Richards
Political violence in Cambodia & the Khmer Rouge "genocide" / Jan Ovesen
Dealing with dilemmas : violent farmer-pastoralist conflicts in Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg
Sarajevan soldier story : perceptions of war & morality in Bosnia / Ivana Mac̆eck
Silence & the politics of representing rebellion : on the emergence of the neutral Maya in Guatemala / Staffan Löfving
"For God & my life" : war & cosmology in Northern Uganda / Sverker Finnström
Making war, crafting peace : militia solidarities & demobilisation in Sierra Leone / Caspar Fithen & Paul Richards
Building a future? : the reintegration & remarginalization of youth in Liberia / Mats Utas
Memories of violence : recreation of ethnicity in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Björn Lindgren
Belonging in nowhere land : the Tibetan diaspora as conflict / Åsa Tiljander Dahlström
Who needs a state? : civilians, security & social services in North-East Somalia / Bernhard Helander
Appendix: Bernhard Helander's bibliography / compiled by Michael Barrett.

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