Death Squad
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Death Squad

The Anthropology of State Terror

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Death Squad

The Anthropology of State Terror

About this book

"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."—Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the Introduction Death Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. It brings together an international group of anthropologists who have done extensive research in areas marked by extreme forms of state violence and who have studied state terror from the perspective of victims and survivors.The book presents eight case studies from seven countries—Spain, India (Punjab and Kashmir), Argentina, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, and the Philippines—to demonstrate the cultural complexities and ambiguities of terror when viewed at the local level and from the participants' point of view. Contributors deal with such topics as the role of Loyalist death squads in the culture of terror in Northern Ireland, the three-tier mechanism of state terror in Indonesia, the complex role of religion in violence by both the state and insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, and the ways in which "disappearances" are used to destabilize and demoralize opponents of the state in Argentina, Guatemala, and India.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction: State Terror and Anthropology
  6. 1. A Fictional Reality: Paramilitary Death Squads and the Construction of State Terror in Spain
  7. 2. Trials by Fire: Dynamics of Terror in Punjab and Kashmir
  8. 3. State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina
  9. 4. The Homogenizing Effects of State-Sponsored Terrorism: The Case of Guatemala
  10. 5. "For God and Ulster": The Culture of Terror and Loyalist Death Squads in Northern Ireland
  11. 6. Ninjas, Nanggalas, Monuments, and Mossad Manuals: An Anthropology of Indonesian State Terror in East Timor
  12. 7. Murdered or Martyred? Popular Evaluations of Violent Death in the Muslim Separatist Movement in the Philippines
  13. 8. Parents and Their Children in Situations of Terror: Disappearances and Special Police Activity in Punjab
  14. Conclusion: Death Squads and Wider Complicities: Dilemmas for the Anthropology of Violence
  15. List of Contributors
  16. Index