Memory and Violence

Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). T. Fujitani. Geoffrey M. White. and Lisa Yoneyama. eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 472 pp.
Disturbing Remains: Memory, History and Crisis in the Twentieth Century. Michael S. Roth and Charles G. Salas. eds. Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2001. 300 pp.     

Sex and Violence

Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World. Richard G. Parker and John H. Gagnon
Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience. Penelope Harvey and Peter Gow     

Anthropologies of Violence and Resistance

Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala. Caroline O. N. Moser and Cathy McIlwaine. New York: Routledge, 2004. 272 pp.
Violence: Theory and Ethnography. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern. New York: Continuum, 2002. 196 pp.
Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century. Carolyn Nordstrom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 293 pp.     

Global Violence and Indonesian Muslim Politics

The attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States and the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan provoked fierce threats of violence in Indonesia, the world's largest majority-Muslim country. Western journalists portrayed these reactions as among the most destabilizing in the Muslim world. Less widely reported, however, was the intensification of a struggle between Muslim proponents of democracy and neof undamentalist conservatives, sparked by the same incidents. This article explores the varied reactions of Muslims to the violence of September 11 and its aftermath in light of this contest between rival Muslim groupings. It examines their competing visions of Islam and nation, as well as their supporting alliances in state and society. The example highlights the pluralism of Muslim politics and the special challenges of democratic transitions. Emphasizing the plurality and permeability of civilizations, the example also suggests that there is no "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West but, rather, a more open process of globalization, localization, and exchange. [Keywords: Islam, Indonesia, violence, democratization, civilization]     

Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina

Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina. Antonius C. G. M. Robben. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 467 pp.     

Special Issue in Honor of Baruch Kanner

Neurochemical Research -     

Medical Aspects of Violence

Physicians see violence in beaten wives, battered children, rage reactions, murder, and suicide. They should recognize that it may be a symptom of disease if it is unprovoked or bizarre, or is associated with impaired consciousness, confusion or irrationality. Violence in episodic trance-like states suggests limbic disease (temporal lobe lesions, psychomotor epilepsy, or “dyscontrol syndrome”); in association with personality change, dementia, or psychosis, it indicates cortical disease (structural, toxic, or idiopathic).