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COURSE SCHEDULE

Session	Date	Topic
1	7.10.2019	Welcome and introduction
2	14.10.2019	What is violence
3	21.10.2019	Violence, non-violence and human nature
4	28.10.2019	*No session this week*
5	4.11.2019	Cosmology of Violence
6	11.11.2019	Conquest and Colonialism
7	18.11.2019	War and Genocide
8	25.11.2019	Gendered and Symbolic Violence
9	2.12.2019	Structural Violence
10	9.12.2019	Normalisation of Violence
11	16.12.2019	Trauma and Remembering
12	23.12.2019	**No session this week*
13	6.1.2019	In-class course test & Violence and Anthropological Practice

COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1: WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Introductions, house rules, course overview, expectations and assignments

Session 2: WHAT IS VIOLENCE?

Required Reading SESSION 2

Riches, David (1986). “The phenomenon of violence”, in: Riches, David, ed. The anthropology of violence. Oxford: Blackwell; pp. 1-27.

Further Reading

Krohn-Hansen, Christian (1997). "The anthropology and ethnography of political violence." Journal of Peace Research: 233-240.
Scheper-Hughes, N. & P. Bourgois (2004). “Introduction: Making Sense of Violence”, in Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology. London: Blackwell Publishing

Session 3: VIOLENCE, NON-VIOLENCE AND HUMAN NATURE

Required Reading SESSION 3

Campbell, A. (1989) “Peace”, in S. Howell and R.Willis (eds.) Societies at Peace: Anthropological Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge; pp. 213-224.

Further Reading

Chagnon. N. (1988) Life Histories, Blood Revenge and Warfare in a Tribal Population. Science 239: 985-92.
Daly, M. and M. Wilson (1982) Homicide and Kinship. American Anthropologist 84(2):

Pgs. 372-378.

De Waal, F. (1992) Aggression as a Well-integrated Part of Primate Social Relationships: a critique of the Seville statement on violence. In J. Silverberg and P. Gray (eds.) Aggression and Peacefulness in Humans and Other Primates. New York: Oxford University Press.
Fry, D. 2006. The human potential for peace: an anthropological challenge to assumptions about war and violence. Oxford University Press
Harrison, S. 1993. Introduction to The mask of war: Violence, ritual and the self in Melanesia. Manchester University Press.
Howell, S. and R. Willis. 1985. Introduction to Societies at Peace. Anthropological Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, pp 1-28.
Lizot, J. 1994. On warfare: an answer to Napolean Chagnon. American Ethnologist 21 (845-62).
Robarchek, Clayton A., and Robert Knox Dentan. "Blood drunkenness and the bloodthirsty Semai: Unmaking another anthropological myth." American Anthropologist 89.2 (1987): 356-365.
Sponsel, L. (2009) "Reflections on the Possibilities of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology", in Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm. Honolulu: Center for Global Nonkilling; pp. 35-70.
Silverberg, J., & Gray, J. P. (1992). Aggression and peacefulness in humans and other primates. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wrangham, R. 1997. Are humans inherently violent? In Taking Sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in anthropology, edited by K. Endicott and R. Welsch.

Session 4: NO SESSION THIS WEEK

Session 5: COSMOLOGY OF VIOLENCE

Required Reading SESSION 4

Taylor, C. (2002). "The cultural face of terror in the Rwandan genocide of 1994", in Hinton, A. L. (ed). Annihilating difference: The anthropology of genocide. Berkeley, Cal: University of California Press; pp. 137-178.

Suggested Reading

Conklin, B. (2001). “Women’s Blood, Warrior’s Blood, and the Conquest of Vitality in Amazonia”, in T. Gregor and D. Tuzin (eds), Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia. Berkeley: University of California Press; pp. 141-174.
Fotta, M. (2016). ‘They say he is a man now’: a tale of fathers and sons. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 25(2), 199-214.
Harrison, S. (1989). “The symbolic construction of aggression and war in a Sepik River society”, Man 24 (4): 583-599.
Harrison, S. (1993). The mask of war: violence, ritual and the self in Melanesia. Manchester University Press.
Strathern, A. & P. J. Stewart (2006). “Introducion: Terror, the Imagination, and Cosmology”, in Strathern, A., P.J. Stewart & N.L. Whitehead (eds) Terror and Violence. Ann Arbor: Pluto Press.
Taylor, A. C. (1993). “Remembering to Forget: identity, mourning and memory among the Jivaro”, Man 28 (4): 653-678.
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. (1992) The Anti-Narcissus. In From the Enemy’s Point of

View: Humanity and divinity in an Amazonian society. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Whitehead, N. L. (2004). "On the poetics of violence", in Whitehead, N. L. (ed.) Violence. Santa Fe: SAR; pp. 55-77.

Session 6: CONQUEST, COLONIALISM AND ITS AFTERMATH

Required Reading Session 5

Taussig, M. (1984). "Culture of terror—Space of death. Roger Casement's Putumayo report and the explanation of torture." Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(3): 467-497.

Suggested Rea