The anthropology of violence / Ed. by David Riches

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford Blackwell 1986Description: IX, 232 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-631-14788-8
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Contents:
The phenomenon of violence / David Riches -- Insurrections in Spain / John Corbin -- "Le Mal Court" / Elisabeth Copet-Rougier -- The ritual use of violence / Suzette Heald -- Images of cannibalism, death, and domination in a "non-violent" society / Joanna Overing -- The beauty of violence / Brian Moeran -- Honour, integrity, and the problem of violence in the Spanish bullfight / Garry Marvin -- Fighting in an Australian Aboriginal supercamp / David McKnight -- "Casuals," "terrace crews" and "fighting firms" / Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, and John Williams -- Violence in rural Northern Ireland / Graham McFarlane -- Violence and will / David Parkin.
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book Library of Ethnosociology & Ethnohistory 92.660 ASE Available 816976-20

Conference on "Violence as a social institution" in St. Andrews, Scotland, January 1985

The phenomenon of violence / David Riches -- Insurrections in Spain / John Corbin -- "Le Mal Court" / Elisabeth Copet-Rougier -- The ritual use of violence / Suzette Heald -- Images of cannibalism, death, and domination in a "non-violent" society / Joanna Overing -- The beauty of violence / Brian Moeran -- Honour, integrity, and the problem of violence in the Spanish bullfight / Garry Marvin -- Fighting in an Australian Aboriginal supercamp / David McKnight -- "Casuals," "terrace crews" and "fighting firms" / Eric Dunning, Patrick Murphy, and John Williams -- Violence in rural Northern Ireland / Graham McFarlane -- Violence and will / David Parkin.