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Anthropology of Violence and Conflict by Bettina Schmidt (Editor); Ingo Schroeder (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2003
Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such as wars in Sarajevo, Albania and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, all aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible.
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage : Construction, Transformation and Destruction by Veysel Apaydin (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2020
Focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies.
Anthropology at the Front Lines of Gender-Based Violence by Jennifer R. Wies (Editor); Hillary J. Haldane (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2011
A global approach to understanding the lives of front-line workers in women's shelters, anti-violence organizations, and outreach groups. Often written from a first-person perspective, these essays examine government workers, volunteers, and nongovernmental organization employees to present a vital picture of practical approaches to combating gender-based violence.
Violent Utopia by Jovan Scott Lewis
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2022
Retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity
Sacrificial Limbs by Salih Can Aciksoz
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2019
Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits, examines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics.

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