Bøker av Dr Pamela J. Stewart

Exploring the meanings and contexts in which violent actions occur, this text stresses the powerful underlying motivation for revenge and the connection between ideas of revenge and concepts of justice. This theory is then applied to case studies from Rwanda-Burundi, Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland.

In a postmodern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this study argues for cultural holism by showing how symbolic, psychological, religious and linguistic factors have shaped Melpa responses to political and economic crises.