ANTHR 6542 - Violence, Symbolic Violence, Terror, and Trauma in South Asia and the Himalayas

Fall. 4 credits.

Co-meets with ANTHR 4542.

D. Holmberg.

This working seminar will focus on violent conflict in South Asia. Key texts on social, ethnic, religious, and political violence in Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, and Pakistan as well as theoretical literature on violence, trauma, and human rights will provide the basis for general reassessment of the anthropological study of violence.