Cultural shaping of violence : victimization, escalation, response / edited by Myrdene Anderson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Introduction : the careless feeding of violence in culture / Myrdene Anderson and Cara Richards -- II. Violence absorbed : lives of children in an American city / Linda McDonald -- III. School power, children's play, and the timing of recess violence / Anna Richman Beresin -- IV. Growing up with violence in Northern Ireland : making meaning of institutionalized violence / Linda J. Rogers -- V. Believed and not believed : community reaction to rape in Mexico and the U.S. / Cathy Winkler -- VI. "Here the cock does not crow, for he is not the lord of the land" : machismo, insecurity, and male violence in Brazil / Sarah Hautzinger -- VII. Transformations in domestic violence and conflict resolution within a Midwestern U.S. Nuer refugee community / Jon D. Holtzman -- VIII. Violent crime and the loss of fathers : beyond the long arm / Wade C. Mackey -- IX. The godmother as mediator : constraining violence in a Zapotec village of Oaxaca, Mexico / Nicole Sault -- X. Honor and violence in a Brazilian slum : gendered checks and balances in the politics of everyday life / Claudia Fonseca -- XI. Reprimand and respect, love and fear in experiences of violence in Colombia / Myriam Jimeno -- XII. The paradox of politeness / Dov Cohen and Joe Vandello -- XIII. Violence by the book : redefining the legitimate use of force in municipal policing / Steven V. Lutes and Michael J. Sullivan -- XIV. Fortunes of war : from primitive warfare to nuclear policy in anthropological thought / Barton C. Hacker -- XV. Combat, emotions, and the "enemy" : metaphors of soldiering in a unit of Israeli infantry reserves / Eyal Ben-Ari -- XVI. Being broken in the Marines : the social construction of belonging in the U.S. Marine Corps / Rhonda J. Moore -- XVII. Epistemic violence, smear-campaigns, and hit-lists : disappearing the Palestinians / Nada Elia -- XVIII. Violence within and against the Pacific / Katerina Teaiwa -- XIX. Liberation, de-liberations, and stallings, or, is the "post" here yet? / Nada Elia -- XX. Violence in Madura : the interplay of resource, culture, and history / Glenn Smith -- XXI. Ambivalent exchanges : the violence of Patronazgo in the Upper Amazon / Bartholomew Dean -- XXII. Taiwan's consumerism, gangs, and violence / Charles Trappey -- XXIII. Intended social effects of a culture of impunity : the case of Guatemala / Frank M. Afflitto -- XXIV. Political violence and the public eye / Glen Perice -- XXV. Violence as culture : "educating" political prisoners in Romania / Gila Safran Naveh -- XXVI. The moral cycle of egoistic and altruistic violence : a century of bloodshed in Colombia / Mario Fandino -- XXVII. Reflections on the Saami at loose ends / Myrdene Anderson -- XXVIII. Epilogue : denaturing cultural violence / Myrdene Anderson.

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