In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in ...(展开全部)

微依那·达斯（Veena Das） 美国约翰·霍普金斯大学人类学系主任。她的研究方向包括：女权运动、性别研究、宗派暴力、医学人类学、后殖民主义与后结构主义理论等。达斯的处女作《印度种姓和仪式面面观》（Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual，牛 津大学出版社1977年版），探讨了印度种姓制度结构的组成。1995年，达斯获得了瑞士人类学—地理学年会奖章。2000年，她被芝加哥大学聘为名誉教授。 此后，她的研究兴趣转向暴力和社会苦难问题，与哈佛大学的凯博文（Arthur Kleinman）教授等人一起合编了《社会苦难》（Social Suffering，加州大学出版社1998年版）及《暴力与主体性》（Violence and Subjectivity，加州大学出版社2000年版）等书，她本人的专著《重大事件——当代印度分析之人类...(展开全部)

In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in ...(展开全部)

微依那·达斯（Veena Das） 美国约翰·霍普金斯大学人类学系主任。她的研究方向包括：女权运动、性别研究、宗派暴力、医学人类学、后殖民主义与后结构主义理论等。达斯的处女作《印度种姓和仪式面面观》（Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual，牛 津大学出版社1977年版），探讨了印度种姓制度结构的组成。1995年，达斯获得了瑞士人类学—地理学年会奖章。2000年，她被芝加哥大学聘为名誉教授。 此后，她的研究兴趣转向暴力和社会苦难问题，与哈佛大学的凯博文（Arthur Kleinman）教授等人一起合编了《社会苦难》（Social Suffering，加州大学出版社1998年版）及《暴力与主体性》（Violence and Subjectivity，加州大学出版社2000年版）等书，她本人的专著《重大事件——当代印度分析之人类...(展开全部)

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'

Translation of La violence et le sacré.

This profound appraisal of post-9/11 America considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a world in which that violence...(展开全部)

This profound appraisal of post-9/11 America considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a world in which that violence...(展开全部)