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No Peace No War: Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts 1st edition
Paul Richards
No Peace No War: Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts 1st edition
Paul Richards
For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained. This book takes a different approach. Anthropologists who have lived with and through the wars they describe here reflect a paradoxical assumption that to understand war we must deny it a special status. Rather than quarantine war and leave it to security specialists they attempt to grasp its character as but one among many phases or aspects of social reality, organised by social agents, made through social action. All war is long-term struggle organised for political ends, and neither the means nor the ends can be understood without reference to a specific social context. North America: Ohio U Press
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 31, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780821415764 |
Publishers | Ohio University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 170 × 230 × 20 mm · 353 g |
Language | English |
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