Section Name Description
File GRADE for the COURSE

GRADE for the COURSE

Week 1. January 18. Introduction: What and why is Violence? File Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, 2001, Ch.1.
File Fanon F. The Wretched of the Earth. Ch.On Violence
File Anthropology of Violence Syllabus Spring 2018
File GRADES for the MIDTERM TEST
Week 2. January 25. Conceptualization of Violence through History File Foucault, M, 1979 Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison (Part III, Chapter 1: Docile Bodies) Alan Sheridan, trans. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 135-169.
URL Film “the Dark Ages”, Documentary, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSvfiQkC49s.

Watching film and discussions 

Week 3. February 1. International and Local Laws and Norms against Violence File Declaration of Human Rights
File Human Rights and Violence in Contemporary Context
Week 4. February 8. Self-directed Violence and Socio-cultural Factors File Foucault, 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Part IV, the carceral, Chapter 4).
File Schmidt, B. The interpretation of violent worldviews. Cannibalism and other violent images of the Caribbean in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, pp. 76-94.
Week 5. February 15. Violence, Colonialism and Empire File Edmonds P., and Johnston A. Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies
File ‘Crime’, poverty, political corruption and conflict in apartheid and post apartheid South Africa: The implications on economic development
Week 6. February 22. Migration, Borders and Diasporas File Thomas, D. The violence of Diaspora
File Schwandner-Siever S. The enactment of ‘tradition’ Albanian constructions of identity, violence and power in times of crisis
Week 7. March 1. Looking at Mahatma Gandhi’ Non-violence File Mahatma Gandhi’s speech about violence. http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil2.htm.
File Spinner-Halev, J. 2005 Hinduism, Christianity, and Liberal Religious Toleration in Political Theory, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 28-57.
Week 8. March 15. Gender, Sexuality and Violence File Declich, F. When silence makes history Gender and memories of war violence from Somalia in Anthropology of Violence And Conflict, ch.8.
File Declich, F. When silence makes history Gender and memories of war violence from Somalia in Anthropology of Violence And Conflict, ch.8.
File Patriarchal terrorism an violence against women
Week 9. March 22. Everyday life and Interpersonal Violence File Abbink, J. Violence and culture Anthropological and evolutionary-psychological reflections on inter-group in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict book, pp. 123-139.
Week 10. March 29. Religion and Ritual Violence File Cavanaugh, W. Does Religion Cause Violence?
File Kloos, P.A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, Ch.9.
File Kloos, P.A turning point? From civil struggle to civil war in Sri Lanka in Anthropology of Violence and Conflict, Ch.9.
Week 11.April 5. Environmental Violence File Vila M., 2003. Environmental violence, liberalism, and responsibility
Week 12. April 12. Violence against Culture File The art property in army conflicts
File Manas Epic, Introduction
Week 13. April 19. Faces of Political Violence: Holocaust and Genocide File Geographic Aspects of Genocide: A Comparison of Bosnia and Rwanda
File Jewish Ethics after the Holocaust
Week 14. April 26. Roads to Peace and Conflict Resolution File Collins,K 2003 The Political Role of Clans in Central Asia in Comparative Politics, Vol. 35, No. 2 pp. 171-190.
File Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking in Islam: Toward Reconciliation and Complementarity between Western and Muslim Approaches