Cultural Shaping of Violence

Cultural Shaping of Violence
Author: Myrdene Anderson
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781557533739

Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. This volume documents violence in 22 distinct cultural settings in 17 nation-states on five continents. Internal to each society, a number of sites of violence may thrive, from the domestic sphere to social institutions and political arenas. In whatever site or guise, violence reverberates throughout the social fabric and beyond.

Cultural Shaping of Violence

Cultural Shaping of Violence
Author: Myrdene Anderson
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781557533456

Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark society's contemporary condition. Sept. 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or addressed, unless tied to the cultural settings that influence it. The book's 27 chapters, researched and written by 28 scholars of seven nationalities, document violence in 22 distinct cultural settings in 17 nation-states on five continents. Internal to each society, a number of sites of violence may thrive, from the domestic sphere to social institutions and political arenas. In whatever site or guise, violence reverberates throughout the social fabric and beyond.

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains
Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2009-08-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812980557

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year) In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” WINNER OF THE LETTRE ULYSSES AWARD FOR THE ART OF REPORTAGE This deluxe paperback edition includes a new Epilogue by the author

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Author: Elijah Anderson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2000-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0393070387

Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.

Ecologies of Harm

Ecologies of Harm
Author: Megan Eatman
Publisher: Rhetoric and Materiality
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-02-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780814214343

Examines lynching, capital punishment, and torture to investigate how rhetoric and violence work together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges for antiviolence work.

Handbook of Cultural Psychology

Handbook of Cultural Psychology
Author: Dov Cohen
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 945
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462536271

Now completely revised (over 90% new), this handbook offers the authoritative presentation of theories, methods, and applications in the dynamic field of cultural psychology. Leading scholars review state-of-the-art empirical research on how culture affects nearly every aspect of human functioning. The volume examines how topics fundamental to psychology--such as cognition, emotion, motivation, development, and mental health--are influenced by cultural meanings and practices. It also addresses the psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of cultural stability and change. The second edition reflects important advances in cultural neuroscience and an increasing emphasis on application, among many other changes. As a special bonus, purchasers of the second edition can download a supplemental e-book featuring several notable, highly cited chapters from the first edition. New to This Edition: *Most chapters are new, reflecting nearly a decade of theoretical and methodological developments. *Cutting-edge perspectives on culture and biology, including innovative neuroscientific and biopsychological research. *Section on economic behavior, with new topics including money, negotiation, consumer behavior, and innovation. *Section on the expansion of cultural approaches into religion, social class, subcultures, and race. *Reflects the growth of real-world applications in such areas as cultural learning and adjustment, health and well-being, and terrorism.

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence
Author: Stacy Banwell
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2023-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803822554

Grounded in feminist scholarship, this book upends normative accounts of femme fatale violence to focus beyond the misogyny and the sensationalism and unearth the motivation behind women's roles in homicide, terrorism, combat, and even nationalist movements.

Journal of Northwest Anthropology

Journal of Northwest Anthropology
Author: Roderick Sprague
Publisher: Northwest Anthropology
Total Pages: 139
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Cascade Projectile Point Technology - Terry L. Ozbun and John L. Fagan Displacement in Colombia: Identity Formations - Juan Esteban Zea An Estimate of Aboriginal Nez Perce Village Size and Other Population Patterns Based on Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Data - Deward E. Walker, Jr., Frank C. Leonhardy, and Mary Jane Walker Jesus Visits Sweatlodge: Corpus Christi among the Interior Salish on the Colville Reservation of Washington State - Jay Miller Traditional Fishing Practices among the Northern Shoshone, Northern Paiute, and Bannock of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation: A Progress Report - Deward E. Walker, Jr. Nashat, Columbia River Prophet of the Waskliki/Feather Religion - Ann Fulton Abstracts of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Ellensburg, Washington 25–27 March 2010

Violence and Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders
Author: Douglass Cecil North
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521761735

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.