Violence

Acknowledgements Preface; R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich Notes on the Contributors PART I: VIOLENCE AND THE STATE Politics as a Vocation; M.Weber Reflections on Violence; H.Arendt War-Making and State-Making as Organized Crime; C.Tilly The Impact and Function of Terror; B.Moore Jr, The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust; Z.Bauman PART II: POLITICAL VIOLENCE The Causes of Terrorism; M.Crenshaw Playing the Game of Love: Passion and Martyrdom Among Khalistani Sikhs; C.Mahmood A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide; A.L.Hinton Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence; B.Aretxaga Surfacing Gender: Reconceptualizing Crimes Against Women in Time of War; R.Copelon PART III: THE NORMALIZATION OF VIOLENCE Culture of Terror-Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture; M.Taussig Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence; J.Peteet Terror Warfare and the Medicine of Peace; C.Nordstrom PART IV: Conclusion; C.Besteman Index