Fighting for Faith and Nation
dialogues with sikh militants
$92.99
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1996
Summary
The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening to the voices of people who experience political violence-either as victims or as perpetrators-gives new insights into both the sources of violent conflict and the potential for its resolution.Drawing on her extensive interviews and conversations with Sikh militants, Cynthia Keppley Mahmood presents their accounts of the human rights abuses in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812215922 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812215923 |
| Series: | Contemporary Ethnography |
| Author: | Cynthia Keppley Mahmood |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Imprint: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1996 |
| Weight: | 485g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Highly recommended.”-Library Journal
“Mahmood brilliantly interweaves Sikh militants’ narratives-their aspirations, fears, beliefs, and actions-with an understanding of India’s Khalistan movement in particular and of contemporary political conflict in general… . Fighting for Faith and Nation provides the theoretical and methodological tools for understanding the politics of violence and militancy and the troubled concepts of nation and freedom. More important, it provides a sensitive and responsible approach to difficult and contentious issues-to matters, literally, of life and death.”-Carolyn Nordstrom, University of California, Berkeley
“A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists. The issues this book raises cannot be ignored.”-Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
About The Author
Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
Cynthia Keppley Mahmood is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine, Orono.
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