States of violence /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Comparative studies in society and history book series.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: States of violence and the violence of states / Julie Skurski and Fernando Coronil
- Civilization and barbarism : cattle frontiers in Latin America / Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff
- Dismembering and remembering the nation : the semantics of political violence in Venezuela / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski
- Mad mullahs and Englishmen : discourse in the colonial encounter / David B. Edwards
- Tea talk : violent measures in the discursive practices of Sri Lanka's estate tamils / E. Valentine Daniel
- "Better occasional murders than frequent adulteries" : discourses on banditry, violence, and sacrifice in the Mediterranean / Paul Sant Cassia
- Of crowds and empires : Afro-Asian riots and European expansion, 1857-1882 / Juan R.I. Cole
- Ethnic violence on the South African gold mines / T. Dunbar Moodie
- Violence in the big house : the limits of discipline and the spaces of resistance / Charles Bright
- Sexual violence, discursive formations, and the state / Veena Das
- Violence and vision : the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman.