Violence in General
Basics
On the Web: Articles
United We Expand. Henry Fountain, NY Times (4/21/02). A lesson for human-kind from the study of Argentine ant-colonies in southern Europe.
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Margold, Jane A. "From ‘cultures
of fear & terror’ to the normalization of violence: an ethnographic
case," Critique of Anthropology 19,1 (1999):63-88.
Nagengast, Carole. "Violence, terror & the crisis of the state,"
Annual Review of Anthropology 23 (1994):109-36.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Arendt, Hannah. On Violence (NY, 1969).
Bailie, Gil. Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (NY, 2001).
Barkun, Michael (ed.) Millennialism & Violence (Portland OR: F. Cass, 1996).
Brock, Rita Nakashima & Rebecca Ann Parker. Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering & the Search for What Saves Us (Boston: Beacon, 2001).
Canada, Geoffrey. Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America (Boston: Beacon, 1995).
Das, Veena et al. (eds.) Violence & Subjectivity (Berkeley, 2000).
Dudley, Leonard M. The Word & the Sword. How Techniques of Violence have
Shaped Our World (Oxford, 1992).
Gaylin, Willard. Hatred: The Psychological Descent into Violence (NY: Public Affairs, 2003).
Gilligan, James. Violence. Reflections on a National Epidemic (NY, 1996).
Grossman, Dave. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War & Society (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995).
Jensen, Derrick. A Language Older Than Words (NY: Context, 2000).
Kaplan, Jeffrey (ed.) Millennial Violence: Past, Present & Future
(Portland OR: Frank Cass, 2002).
Riches, David (ed.) The Anthropology of Violence (London, 1986).
Steger, Manfred B. & Nancy S. Lind (eds.) Violence & Its Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary Reader (NY: St. Martin's, 1999).
Tilly, Charles. The Politics of Collective Violence (NY: Cambridge, 2003).