The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Violence-Prone Area or International Transition? Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan Violence 19
6. Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror 46
7. Circumcision, Body, Masculinity: The Ritual Wound and Collective Violence 79
8. Teach Me How to Be a Man: An Exploration of the Definition of Masculinity 102
9. On Not Becoming a "Terrorist": Problems of Memory, Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict 120
10. The Ground of All Making: State Violence, the Family, and Political Activists 141
11. Violence, Suffering, Amman: The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War Zone 171
12. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity 205
13. The Violences of Everyday Life: The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social Violence 226
14. Body and Space in a Time of Crisis: Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in Delhi 242
15. The Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of Zeal 271
16. Mayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of Memories 296
17. Reconciliation and Memory in Postwar Nigeria 315
18. Mood, Moment, and Mind 333
19. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 367
20. INDEX 369