The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners
States resort to disappearances to remove unwanted critics or minorities from society. The act of a disappearance often follows a […]
Book Review Reviews
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Sing the Rage. Listening to Anger after Mass Violence
Anger was abundant in South Africa during the 1990s. After the abolition of Apartheid in 1994, the Truth and Reconciliation
Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
Anthropology is quite familiar with enculturation and the informal processes by which culture is constructed and transmitted. Increasingly, however, culture
Intimate Enemies. Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
Kimberly Theidon illuminates both the horrific and beautiful complexities of post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice as it unfolds on the
On Harm and History
I want to begin with Julia´s history, an indigenous woman from the South of Colombia who currently lives in one
My name is not ‘NN’: Field-Notes from An Exhumation Site in Guatemala City
I arrived to La Ciudad Cemetery by the end of February 2014 as part of an introductory training on Forensic
In the name of ‘rule of law’…
After South Sudan declared its independence from the Republic of the Sudan in 2011, one could read in the international
Rescuing (cosmopolitan) locals at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
On the 31st December 2014, after twenty years of existence, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) finally ceased operations.
Labors of Memory and the Post-Conflict Economy
During my research on Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 2003, a group of men in Lunsar invited me
Books on “Violence” looking for reviewers #AnthroViolence
It has been a stimulating week at Allegra, with many fabulous posts by anthropologists working on ‘violence’. If you missed