Autor: Neil L. Whitehead

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Neil Whitehead (1956-2012) was Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He is co-editor of Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2005).




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Andrew Strathern & Pamela J. Stewart: Terror and Violence
What is terror? What are its roots and its results — and what part does it play in human experience and history? This volume offers a number of timely and original anthropological insights into the …
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€124.99
Michael Wesch & Neil L. Whitehead: Human No More
Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities.Online worlds have rec …
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€30.56
Sverker Finnstrom & Neil L. Whitehead: Virtual War and Magical Death
Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on ethnogra …
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€36.71
Neil L. Whitehead: Dark Shamans
On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaima, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Bra …
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€37.16
Neil L. Whitehead & Robin Wright: In Darkness and Secrecy
In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or "dark shamanism." Anthropological reflections on South Am …
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€35.81
Sverker Finnstrom: Living with Bad Surroundings
Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been …
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€37.26
Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca: Indian Militia and Description of the Indies
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurg …
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€38.43
Hans Staden: Hans Staden’s True History
In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinamba, an indigenous people who had a repu …
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€35.97
Leigh A. Payne: Unsettling Accounts
An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that …
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€39.83
Aparecida Vilaca: Strange Enemies
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. O …
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€39.73
Enrique Desmond Arias & Daniel M. Goldstein: Violent Democracies in Latin America
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to …
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€37.17
Nasser Abufarha: Making of a Human Bomb
In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during …
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€35.90
Alexander Laban Hinton & Kevin Lewis O’Neill: Genocide
What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and …
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€38.34