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Violence and belonging : land, love and lethal conflict in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan / Are Knudsen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 115.Publication details: Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 224 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9788776945558
  • 8776945553
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence and belonging.DDC classification:
  • 305.800954912 22
LOC classification:
  • DS392.N67 K58 2009eb
Other classification:
  • 15.75
  • LB 51380
  • MS 9650
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Belonging to the Palas Valley -- 3. The textured landscape -- 4. Land of contention -- 5. Being, longing and belonging -- 6. Condemned and confined -- 7. Magic and honour -- 8. Contesting the boundaries -- 9. Brooding over the big trees -- 10. Thresholds and transitions.
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Summary: "Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet-apart from political violence-most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to shed light on the complexities of violence, not only at the structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men involved in lethal conflict. In this way, the book provides a subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of violence in the Middle East and South Asia. The book is the first ethnographic study of this region since renowned anthropologist Fredrik Barth's pioneering study in 1954." --From publisher's description.
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"With a foreword by Fredrik Barth"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.

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1. Introduction -- 2. Belonging to the Palas Valley -- 3. The textured landscape -- 4. Land of contention -- 5. Being, longing and belonging -- 6. Condemned and confined -- 7. Magic and honour -- 8. Contesting the boundaries -- 9. Brooding over the big trees -- 10. Thresholds and transitions.

"Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet-apart from political violence-most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to shed light on the complexities of violence, not only at the structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men involved in lethal conflict. In this way, the book provides a subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of violence in the Middle East and South Asia. The book is the first ethnographic study of this region since renowned anthropologist Fredrik Barth's pioneering study in 1954." --From publisher's description.

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