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Political Crime and the Memory of Loss
John Borneman
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Paperback. Reflections on politics, loss and reconciliation in Europe and the Middle East Series: New Anthropologies of Europe. Num Pages: 243 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; JKV; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individuals and groups to seek redress in the form of violence. But are there possible modes of redress to reckon with loss that might lead to a departure from the violence of collective and individual revenge? This book focuses on the redress of political crime in Germany and Lebanon, extending its analysis to questions of accountability and democratization in the United States and elsewhere. To understand the proposed modes of redress, John Borneman links the way the actors define their injuries to the cultural forms of redress these injuries assume ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
New Anthropologies of Europe
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223517
SKU
V9780253223517
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About John Borneman
John Borneman is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. His books include Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation and Syrian Episodes: Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo.
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Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individuals and groups to seek redress in the form of violence . . . This book focuses on the redress of political crime in Germany and Lebanon, extending its analysis to questions of accountability and democratization in the United States and elsewhere. Feb. 2014
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