
Cultural Shaping of Violence
International Perspectives
Myrdene Anderson(Author)
Purdue University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-55753-373-9 (ISBN)
Description
Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark our contemporary condition. September 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understood or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. Its 27 chapters researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities, document violence in 22 distinct cultural setting in 17 nation-states of five continents. Internal to each society, a number of sites of violence may thrive, from the domestic sphere to social institutions and political arenas. In whatever site or guise, violence reverberates throughout the social fabric and beyond. Myrdene Anderson is an associate professor at Purdue University. She is an anthropologist, linguist and semiotician. For a citizen-scientist immersed in many cultural works, Anderson considers violence an imperative intellectual and pragmatic issue. However, this book was a collaborative issue. A majority of the authors are anthropologists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
West Lafayette
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55753-373-9 (9781557533739)
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Myrdene Anderson is an anthropologist, linguist, and semiotician. For a citizen-scientist immersed in many cultural worlds, Anderson considers violence an imperative intellectual and pragmatic issue; however, this book was a collaborative issue. A majority of the authors are anthropologists.