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| Title | : | Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (The Ethnography of Political Violence) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081221711X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
"An inspiring and disquieting read."—International Journal of Human Rights
"An excellent history of state terror aimed at it's own people" according to Sgt. Rock. This excellent book describes examples of death squads that are sponsored by supposedly legitimate governments who wage campaigns of violence against their own people. The examples range from death in Kashmir, Argentina, Indonesia, the Philipines to ULster in the UK. The chapter about the dirty war in northern Ireland where British intelligence units provided protestant terror organizations with money and know how so t
He is the author of Hearts and Minds, Water and Fish: Popular Support for the IRA and INLA in a Northern Irish Ghetto. Jeffrey A. Sluka is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Massey University in New Zealand.
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, an
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