Cultures Under Siege

Collective violence changes the perpetrators victims and societies in which it occurs. It targets the body the psyche and the socio-cultural order. How do people come to terms with these tragic events? This groundbreaking collection of essays by anthropologists psychologists and psychoanalysts drawing on field research in many different parts of the world profits from an interdisciplinary dialogue. Providing provocative at times deeply troubling insights into the darker side of humanity it also proposes new ways of understanding the terrible things that people are capable of doing to each other.