
Some Trouble with Cows
Making Sense of Social Conflict
Beth Roy(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 24. August 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-520-08342-4 (ISBN)
Description
Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, "Some Trouble with Cows" will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community. Using first-person accounts of Hindus and Muslims in a remote Bangladeshi village, Beth Roy evocatively describes and analyzes a large-scale riot that profoundly altered life in the area in the 1950s. She provides a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of the participants and their families, while touching on a range of broader issues that are vital to the sociology of communities in conflict: the changing meaning of community; the impact of the state on local society; the nature of memory; and, the force of neighborly enmity in reshaping power relationships during periods of change. Roy's findings illustrate important theoretical issues in psychology and sociology, and her conclusions will greatly interest students of ethnic/race relations, conflict resolution, the sociology of violence, agrarian society, and South Asia.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08342-4 (9780520083424)
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Person
Beth Roy lived in India from 1965 to 1972 and has returned frequently. She is the author of Bullock Carts and Motor Bikes (1972) and On a Tree of Trouble: Tribes of India in Crisis (1974). She has a doctorate in sociology and currently lives in San Francisco, where she practices mediation and writes and teaches about communities in conflict.
Content
Acknowledgments
Maps
The Cast of Characters
Introduction
Part One: Making Trouble
1. The Quarrel
2. The Decision
3. The Riot
4. Intervention and Punishment
5. Reconciliation and Thereafter
Part Two: Making Sense
6. Lessons of Panipur
7. Self and Decision
8. Community and Identity
9. History and Ideology
10. Bringing History Home
Appendix A: Chronology
Appendix B: Land Relations in Panipur
Notes
Names and Terms
Bibliography
Index
Maps
The Cast of Characters
Introduction
Part One: Making Trouble
1. The Quarrel
2. The Decision
3. The Riot
4. Intervention and Punishment
5. Reconciliation and Thereafter
Part Two: Making Sense
6. Lessons of Panipur
7. Self and Decision
8. Community and Identity
9. History and Ideology
10. Bringing History Home
Appendix A: Chronology
Appendix B: Land Relations in Panipur
Notes
Names and Terms
Bibliography
Index