Brings together an array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. This work talks about their research with survivors of war, occupation, massacres, and displacement.
Brings together an array of scholars who have been embedded in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the world to reflect on the role and responsibility of anthropological inquiry. This work talks about their research with survivors of war, occupation, massacres, and displacement.
VICTORIA SANFORD is an assistant professor of anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY. ASALE ANGEL-AJANI is an assistant professor in the Gallatin School at New York University.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part One. The Politics of Witnessing in War and Pain 1. Excavations of the Heart: Reflections on Truth, Memory, and Structures of Understanding 2. Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar) 3. War and the Nature of Ultimate Things: An Essay on the Study of Postwar Cultures 4. Expert Witness: Notes toward Revisiting the Politics of Listening Part Two. Lessons from Agents of Change 5. Moral Chronologies: Generation and Popular Memory in a Palestinian Refugee Camp 6. "In Our Beds and Our Graves": Revealing the Politics of Pleasure and Pain in the Time of AIDS 7. Portrait of a Paramilitary: Putting a Human Face on the Colombian Conflict Part Three. Trauma, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Everyday Life 8. Fratricidal War or Ethnocidal Strategy? Women's Experience with Political Violence in Chiapas 9. Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal: A Feminist Activist Research Perspective 10. It's a Hard Place to be a Revolutionary Woman: Finding Peace and Justice in Postwar El Salvador Part Four. The Engaged Observer, Inside and Outside the Academy 11. Perils and Promises of Engaged Anthropology: Historical Transitions and Ethnographic Dilemmas 12. Knowledge in the Service of a Vision: Politically Engaged Anthropology Notes on Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part One. The Politics of Witnessing in War and Pain 1. Excavations of the Heart: Reflections on Truth, Memory, and Structures of Understanding 2. Scholarship, Advocacy, and the Politics of Engagement in Burma (Myanmar) 3. War and the Nature of Ultimate Things: An Essay on the Study of Postwar Cultures 4. Expert Witness: Notes toward Revisiting the Politics of Listening Part Two. Lessons from Agents of Change 5. Moral Chronologies: Generation and Popular Memory in a Palestinian Refugee Camp 6. "In Our Beds and Our Graves": Revealing the Politics of Pleasure and Pain in the Time of AIDS 7. Portrait of a Paramilitary: Putting a Human Face on the Colombian Conflict Part Three. Trauma, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Everyday Life 8. Fratricidal War or Ethnocidal Strategy? Women's Experience with Political Violence in Chiapas 9. Indigenous Women and Gendered Resistance in the Wake of Acteal: A Feminist Activist Research Perspective 10. It's a Hard Place to be a Revolutionary Woman: Finding Peace and Justice in Postwar El Salvador Part Four. The Engaged Observer, Inside and Outside the Academy 11. Perils and Promises of Engaged Anthropology: Historical Transitions and Ethnographic Dilemmas 12. Knowledge in the Service of a Vision: Politically Engaged Anthropology Notes on Contributors Index
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