Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology

From Hannah Arendt s banality of evil to Joseph Conrad s fascination of the abomination, humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology s most passionate voices on this subject, Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology is the only book of its kind available: a single volume exploration of social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence.

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• Brings together a sweeping collection of readings, drawn from a remarkable range of sources, that look at various conceptions and modes of violence.
  
• Juxtaposes the routine violence of everyday life against the sudden outcropping of extraordinary violence such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the state violence of Argentina s Dirty War, and organized criminal violence.
  
• Edited by two of the most prominent researchers in the field.
  
• Offers a thought-provoking tool for students and thinkers from all walks of life: an exploration of violence at the broadest levels: personal, social, and political.