Contents

Acknowledgments ix

I. Myrdene Anderson and Cara Richards

Introduction: The Careless Feeding of Violence in Culture 1

Part One ♦ Children and Women First? Violence Close to Home 9

II.

Violence Absorbed: Lives of Children in an American City 11

III. Anna Richman Beresin

School Power, Children’s Play, and the Timing of Recess Violence 18

IV. Linda J. Rogers

Growing Up with Violence in Northern Ireland: Making Meaning 24

of Institutionalized Violence

V. Cathy Winkler

Believed and Not Believed: Community Reaction to Rape 35

in Mexico and the U.S.

VI. Sarah Hautzinger

“Here the Cock Does Not Crow, For He Is Not the Lord of 49

the Land”: Machismo, Insecurity, and Male Violence in Brazil

VII. Jon D. Holtzman

Transformations in Domestic Violence and Conflict Resolution 58 within a Midwestern U.S. Nuer Refugee Community

Part Two ♦ Social Regulation of Anti-Social Behavior 65

VIII. Wade C. Mackey

Violent Crime and the Loss of Fathers: Beyond the Long Arm 67

IX. Nicole Sault

The Godmother as Mediator: Constraining Violence 82

in a Zapotec Village of Oaxaca, Mexico

X. Claudia Fonseca

Honor and Violence in a Brazilian Slum: Gendered Checks 95

and Balances in the Politics of Everyday Life

XI. Myriam Jimeno

Reprimand and Respect, Love and Fear in Experiences of 110

Violence in Colombia

XII. Dov Cohen and Joe Vandello

The Paradox of Politeness 119

Part Three ♦ Institutional Architectures Mediating and 133

Memorializing Violence

XIII. Steven V. Lutes and Michael J. Sullivan

Violence by the Book: Redefining the Legitimate Use 135

of Force in Municipal Policing

XIV. Barton C. Hacker

Fortunes of War: From Primitive Warfare to Nuclear Policy 147

in Anthropological Thought

XV. Eyal Ben-Ari

Combat, Emotions, and the “Enemy”: Metaphors of Soldiering 165

in a Unit of Israeli Infantry Reserves

XVI.

Being Broken in the Marines: The Social Construction 179

of Belonging in the U.S. Marine Corps

XVII. Nada Elia

Epistemic Violence, Smear-Campaigns, and Hit-Lists: 187

Disappearing the Palestinians

XVIII. Katerina Teaiwa

Violence Within and Against the Pacific 193

XIX. Nada Elia

Liberation, De-Liberations, and Stallings, 199

Or, Is the “Post”-Here Yet?

Part Four ♦ Escalating Ecologies of Perturbation 205

XX. Glenn Smith

Violence in Madura: The Interplay of Resource, 207

Culture, and History

XXI. Bartholomew Dean

Ambivalent Exchanges: The Violence of Patronazgo 214

in the Upper Amazon

XXII. Charles Trappey

Taiwan's Consumerism, Gangs, and Violence 227

XXIII. Frank M. Afflitto

Intended Social Effects of a Culture of Impunity: 239

The Case of Guatemala

XXIV. Glen Perice

Political Violence and the Public Eye 249

XXV. Gila Safran Naveh

Violence as Culture: “Educating” Political Prisoners in Romania 258

XXVI. Mario Fandino

The Moral Cycle of Egoistic and Altruistic Violence: 268

A Century of Bloodshed in Colombia

Part Five ♦ Loose Ends: Reflections and Epilogue 283

XXVII. Myrdene Anderson

Reflections on the Saami at Loose Ends 285

XXVIII. Myrdene Anderson

Epilogue: Denaturing Cultural Violence 292

Contributors 319

Index 325