TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aditjondro,George J.
AU  - Afflitto,Frank M.
AU  - Aretxaga,Begoña
AU  - Mahmood,Cynthia Keppley
AU  - McKenna,Thomas M.
AU  - Pettigrew,Joyce
AU  - Robben,Antonius C.G.M.
AU  - Sluka,Jeffrey A.
AU  - Warren,Kay B.
TI  - Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror 
T2  - The Ethnography of Political Violence
SN  - 9780812217117
AV  - HV6431 ǂb D433 2000eb 
U1  - 303.6/25 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Constitutional torts
KW  - Death squads
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Political persecution
KW  - State-sponsored terrorism
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Folklore
KW  - General
KW  - Law
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Social Science
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction. State Terror and Anthropology --; Chapter 1. A Fictional Reality Paramilitary Death Squads and the Construction of State Terror in Spain --; Chapter 2. Trials by Fire. Dynamics of Terror in Punjab and Kashmir --; Chapter 3. State Terror in the Netherworld. Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina --; Chapter 4. The Homogenizing Effects of State-Sponsored Terrorism. The Case of Guatemala --; Chapter 5. "For God and Ulster". The Culture of Terror and Loyalist Death Squads in Northern Ireland --; Chapter 6. Ninjas, IManggalas, Monuments, and Mossad Manuals. An Anthropology of Indonesian State Terror in East Timor --; Chapter 7. Murdered or Martyred? Popular Evaluations of Violent Death in the Muslim Separatist Movement in the Philippines --; Chapter 8. Parents and Their Children in Situations of Terror. Disappearances and Special Police Activity in Punjab --; Conclusion. Death Squads and Wider Complicities. Dilemmas for the Anthropology of Violence --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - "There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."-Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically on the anthropology of state terror. It brings together an international group of anthropologists who have done extensive research in areas marked by extreme forms of state violence and who have studied state terror from the perspective of victims and survivors. The book presents eight case studies from seven countries-Spain, India (Punjab and Kashmir), Argentina, Guatemala, Northern Ireland, Indonesia, and the Philippines-to demonstrate the cultural complexities and ambiguities of terror when viewed at the local level and from the participants' point of view. Contributors deal with such topics as the role of Loyalist death squads in the culture of terror in Northern Ireland, the three-tier mechanism of state terror in Indonesia, the complex role of religion in violence by both the state and insurgents in Punjab and Kashmir, and the ways in which "disappearances" are used to destabilize and demoralize opponents of the state in Argentina, Guatemala, and India
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200485
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812200485
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812200485/original
ER  -