Aparna Rao (1950-2005) spent many years doing ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan, Kashmir and in western India, and published several books and papers based on her research.

• List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: The Practice of WarElisabeth ColsonPART I: CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICAChapter 1. ‘We Turned our Enemies into Baboons’: Warfare, Ritual and Pastoral Identity among the Pokot of Northern KenyaMichael Bollig and Matthias ÖsterleChapter 2. Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern EthiopiaJon AbbinkChapter 3. Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western UgandaHeike BehrendPART II: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTIONChapter 4. Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904–1940Jan-Bart GewaldChapter 5. Trauma, Therapy and Responsibility: Psychology and War in Contemporary IsraelEdna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-AriChapter 6. ‘I Shall be Waiting for You at the Door of Paradise’: The Pakistani Martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)Mariam Abou ZahabPART III: ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGIONChapter 7. Is War Gendered? Issues in Representing Women and the Second World WarElaine MartinChapter 8. Judging by Aesthetics: ‘Due Care’ in the Management of ‘Collaboration’ in the First Palestinian IntifadaIris Jean-KleinChapter 9. Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-e TaibaYoginder SikandPART IV: THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDSChapter 10. In the Combat ZoneMarilyn B. YoungChapter 11. ‘Virtual’ Discourse and the Creation and Disruption of Social Networks: Observations on the War in Kashmir in CyberspaceAparna Rao, Monika Böck, Katharina Schneider and Michael SchneggChapter 12. Martyrs, Victims, Friends and Foes: Internet Representations by Palestinian IslamistsHenner KirchnerChapter 13. Mapping a Conflict in Cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWWJulia Pauli and Michael SchneggPART V: PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVELENCES OF INTERESTChapter 14. Violence and Peace ProcessesJohn DarbyIndex

"[A]n admirable example of how social anthropologists may contribute to understandings of conflicts and armed violence as complex and articulated social processes" · Ethos

Aparna Rao (1950-2005) spent many years doing ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan, Kashmir and in western India, and published several books and papers based on her research.

• List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: The Practice of WarElisabeth ColsonPART I: CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICAChapter 1. ‘We Turned our Enemies into Baboons’: Warfare, Ritual and Pastoral Identity among the Pokot of Northern KenyaMichael Bollig and Matthias ÖsterleChapter 2. Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern EthiopiaJon AbbinkChapter 3. Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western UgandaHeike BehrendPART II: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTIONChapter 4. Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904–1940Jan-Bart GewaldChapter 5. Trauma, Therapy and Responsibility: Psychology and War in Contemporary IsraelEdna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-AriChapter 6. ‘I Shall be Waiting for You at the Door of Paradise’: The Pakistani Martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)Mariam Abou ZahabPART III: ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGIONChapter 7. Is War Gendered? Issues in Representing Women and the Second World WarElaine MartinChapter 8. Judging by Aesthetics: ‘Due Care’ in the Management of ‘Collaboration’ in the First Palestinian IntifadaIris Jean-KleinChapter 9. Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-e TaibaYoginder SikandPART IV: THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDSChapter 10. In the Combat ZoneMarilyn B. YoungChapter 11. ‘Virtual’ Discourse and the Creation and Disruption of Social Networks: Observations on the War in Kashmir in CyberspaceAparna Rao, Monika Böck, Katharina Schneider and Michael SchneggChapter 12. Martyrs, Victims, Friends and Foes: Internet Representations by Palestinian IslamistsHenner KirchnerChapter 13. Mapping a Conflict in Cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWWJulia Pauli and Michael SchneggPART V: PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVELENCES OF INTERESTChapter 14. Violence and Peace ProcessesJohn DarbyIndex

"[A]n admirable example of how social anthropologists may contribute to understandings of conflicts and armed violence as complex and articulated social processes" · Ethos

Aparna Rao (1950-2005) spent many years doing ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan, Kashmir and in western India, and published several books and papers based on her research.

• List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: The Practice of WarElisabeth ColsonPART I: CHANGING QUALITIES OF VIOLENCE: CASE STUDIES FROM AFRICAChapter 1. ‘We Turned our Enemies into Baboons’: Warfare, Ritual and Pastoral Identity among the Pokot of Northern KenyaMichael Bollig and Matthias ÖsterleChapter 2. Culture Slipping Away: Violence, Social Tension and Personal Drama in Suri Society, Southern EthiopiaJon AbbinkChapter 3. Catholics and Cannibals: Terror and Healing in Tooro, Western UgandaHeike BehrendPART II: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND REDEMPTIONChapter 4. Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904–1940Jan-Bart GewaldChapter 5. Trauma, Therapy and Responsibility: Psychology and War in Contemporary IsraelEdna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-AriChapter 6. ‘I Shall be Waiting for You at the Door of Paradise’: The Pakistani Martyrs of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Army of the Pure)Mariam Abou ZahabPART III: ORGANIZING, ENCOURAGING AND DISSUADING: THE USES OF KINSHIP, GENDER AND RELIGIONChapter 7. Is War Gendered? Issues in Representing Women and the Second World WarElaine MartinChapter 8. Judging by Aesthetics: ‘Due Care’ in the Management of ‘Collaboration’ in the First Palestinian IntifadaIris Jean-KleinChapter 9. Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-e TaibaYoginder SikandPART IV: THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR IN MEDIATED WORLDSChapter 10. In the Combat ZoneMarilyn B. YoungChapter 11. ‘Virtual’ Discourse and the Creation and Disruption of Social Networks: Observations on the War in Kashmir in CyberspaceAparna Rao, Monika Böck, Katharina Schneider and Michael SchneggChapter 12. Martyrs, Victims, Friends and Foes: Internet Representations by Palestinian IslamistsHenner KirchnerChapter 13. Mapping a Conflict in Cyberspace: Chiapas on the WWWJulia Pauli and Michael SchneggPART V: PEACE BUILDING AT THE CROSSROADS: APPROPRIATIONS OF WAR, AMBIVELENCES OF INTERESTChapter 14. Violence and Peace ProcessesJohn DarbyIndex

"[A]n admirable example of how social anthropologists may contribute to understandings of conflicts and armed violence as complex and articulated social processes" · Ethos