Violence and Subjectivity

Veena Das is Professor of Sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and Professor of Anthropology at the New School Graduate Faculty in New York. Arthur Kleinman is Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School. Mamphela Ramphele is Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. Pamela Reynolds is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIntroductionVeena Das and Arthur KleinmanViolence-Prone Area or International Transition?Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan ViolenceSusan L. WoodwardViolence and Vision:The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of TerrorAllen FeldmanCircumcision, Body, Masculinity:The Ritual Wound and Collective ViolenceDeepak MehtaTeach Me How to Be a Man:An Exploration of the Definition of MasculinityMamphela RampheleOn Not Becoming a "Terrorist": Problems of Memory,Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan ConflictJonathan SpencerThe Ground of All Making:State Violence, the Family, and Political ActivistsPamela ReynoldsViolence, Suffering, Amman:The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War ZonePatricia LawrenceThe Act of Witnessing:Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and SubjectivityVeena DasThe Violences of Everyday Life:The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social ViolenceArthur KleinmanBody and Space in a Time of Crisis:Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in DelhiEmma TarloThe Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of ZealMargaret LockMayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of MemoriesKay B. WarrenReconciliation and Memory in Postwar NigeriaMurray LastMood, Moment, and MindE. Valentine DanielLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSINDEX