Violence in War and Peace A 367236" Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois Blackwell Publishing Contents About the Editors x Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Making Sense of Violence 1 Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois Part I: Conquest and Colonialism 33 1 From Heart of Darkness 35 Joseph Conrad 2 Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture 39 Michael Taussig 3 From Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America 54 Theodora Kroeber 4 Ishi's Brain, Ishi's Ashes: Anthropology and Genocide 61 Nancy Scheper-Hughes Tribal Warfare 69 R. Brian Ferguson 6 From The Bushman Myth: The Making of a Namibian Underclass 74 Robert]. Gordon Part II: The Holocaust 77 7 Right of Death and Power Over Life Michel Foucault • 79 8 The Gray Zone Pritno Levi 83 VI CONTENTS 9 From Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91 Hannah Arendt 10 Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre 101 Christopher R. Browning 11 From This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 109 Tadeusz Borowski 12 From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began 118 Art Spiegelman Part III: The Politics of Communal Violence 121 13 From "Hellhounds" 123 Leon F. Litwack 14 From Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania 129 Liisa H. Malkki 15 From We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda 136 Philip Gourevitch Part IV: Why Do People Kill? 143 16 Behavioral Study of Obedience 145 Stanley Milgram © Grief and a Headhunter's Rage 150 Renato Rosaldo ( 18 \chy Did You Kill?: The Cambodian Genocide and the Dark V__/Side of Face and Honor 157 Alexander Laban Hinton Part V: The State Amok: State Violence and Dirty Wars 169 19 Talking Terror 171 Michael Taussig 20 Bodies, Death, and Silence 175 Nancy Scheper-Hughes 21 Living in a State of Fear 186 Linda Green 22 Killing Priests, Nuns, Women, Children 196 Jean Franco CONTENTS VII The Fear of Indifference: Combatants' Anxieties about the Political Identity of Civilians during Argentina's Dirty War 200 Antonius Robben 24 On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King 207 Allen Feldman 25 The New War Against Terror: Responding to 9/11 217 Noam Chomsky 26 Violence Foretold: Reflections on 9/11 224 Nancy Scheper-Hughes Part VI: Violence and Political Resistance 227 27_ Preface to Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth 229 ean-Paul Sartre rom On Violence 236 Hannah Arendt 29 Dirty Protest: Symbolic Overdetermination and Gender in Northern Ireland Ethnic Violence 244 Begona Aretxaga 30 Who's the Killer? Popular Justice and Human Rights in a South African Squatter Camp 253 Nancy Scheper-Hughes Part VII: Peacetime Crimes: Everyday Violence 267 31 Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege 269 Michael Taussig 32 Symbolic Violence 272 Pierre Bourdieu and Lo'ic Wacquant 33 Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death 275 Nancy Scheper-Hughes 34 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 281 Paul Farmer 35 Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua 290 James Quesada 36 "The Lower Classes Smell," from The Road to Wigan Pier 297 George Orwell VIM CONTENTS 37 US Inner-city Apartheid: The Contours of Structural and Interpersonal Violence 301 Philippe Bourgois 38 Denaturalizing Disaster: A Social Autopsy of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave 308 Eric Klinenberg 39 The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto 318 Lo'ic Wacquant Part VIM: Gendered Violence 325 40 Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain 327 Veena Das 41 From The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War 334 Mark Danner 42 Gender and Symbolic Violence 339 Pierre Bourdieu 43 The Everyday Violence of Gang Rape 343 Philippe Bourgois 44 Hooking Up: Protective Pairing for Punks 348 Stephen Donaldson 45 Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals 354 Carol Cohn Part IX: Torture 363 46 From The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World ' 365 Elaine Scarry 47 From Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror 368 Judith Herman 48 The Wet Bag and Other Phantoms 372 Antjie Krog 49 The Treatment of Children in the 'Dirty War': Ideology, State Terrorism, and the Abuse of Children in Argentina 378 Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco PartX: Witnessing/ Writing Violence 389 50 From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began 391 Art Spiegelman 51 Missing the Revolution: Anthropologists and the War in Peru 395 Orin Starn CONTENTS ix 52 From War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents 402 Mark Pedelty 53 With Genet in the Palestinian Field 410 Ted Swedenburg 54 The Anthropologist as Terrorist 416 Joseba Zulaika 55 An Alternative Anthropology: Exercising the Preferential Option for the Poor 420 Leigh Binford 56 The Continuum of Violence in War and Peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador 425 Philippe Bourgois Part XI: Aftermaths 435 57 The Witness 437 Giorgio Agamben 58 Colonial War and Mental Disorders 443 Frantz Fanon 59 From The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter 453 Albie Sachs 60 Undoing: Social Suffering and the Politics of Remorse in the New South Africa 459 Nancy Scheper-Hughes 61 From When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda 468 Mahmood Mamdani 62 From The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness 475 Wole Soyinka Index 478.