Violence Expressed

Abstract

Contents: Introduction, Nerina Weiss and Maria Six-Hohenbalken Part I Normalization and Aesthetics: The utter normalization of violence: silence, memory and impunity among the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska, Linda Green Warriors of honour, warriors of faith: two historical male role models from south-western Arabia, Andre Gingrich Public events and the Japanese self-defense forces: aesthetics, ritual density and the normalization of military violence, Eyal Ben-Ari Aesthetics of martyrdom: the celebration of violent death among the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Aivind Fugelrud. Part II Discursive Strategies a Muted Language: When soldiers explain: discursive strategies used by Israeli conscripts when recounting their experiences in the field, Erella Grassiani Tense relations: dealing with narratives of violence in eastern Turkey, Nerina Weiss Speaking blood: metaphoric expressions of sexual violence in a Guadeloupian family, Janine Klungel Expressed, muted and silenced: Mestizo childhood and everyday violence in a marginal neighbourhood in Quito, Ecuador, Esben Leifsen. Part III Remembering and Aftermath: Silence, denial and confession about state terror by the Argentine military, Antonius C.G.M. Robben From traumatic history to embodied memory: a methodological challenge to anthropologists, Adelheid Pichler 'All filmmaking is a form of therapy': visualising memories of war violence in the animation film Waltz with Bashir (2008), Michaela SchAuble Blurred boundaries in World War I: strategies of censorship, denial and the role of witness accounts, Maria Six-Hohenbalken Index.