Meanings of Violence

Göran Aijmer University of Gothenburg Jon Abbink Rijksuniversiteit Leiden

• Preface: Violation and Violence as Cultural Phenomena, Introduction: The Idiom of Violence in Imagery and Discourse 1 The Enigma of Senseless Violence 2 'Criminals by Instinct': On the 'Tragedy' of Social Structure and the 'Violence' of lndividual Creativity 3 Ritual, Violence and Social Order: An Approach to Spanish Bullfighting 4 Restoring the Balance: Violence and Culture Among the Suri of Southern Ethiopia 5 Tolerating the Intolerable: Cattle Raiding Among the Kuria of Kenya 6 Rethinking 'Violence' in Chinese Culture 7 Butchering Fish and Executing Criminals: Public Executions and the Meanings of Violence in Late Imperial and Modem China, 8 The 'Tradition of Violence' in Colombia: Material and Symbolic Aspects

'There is no doubt that this book (to which justice cannot be done in a brief review) will be seminal with regard to future research and debate.'Anthropological Theory'One of the most innovative collections of contributions to the discussion of violence in recent times ... an excellent resource [that] enriches the debate on the subject.'The Global Review of Ethnopolitics