The Ethnography of Political Violence

The Penn Press list for spring 2019 includes hardcover releases, first-time paperbacks, and ebook editions intended for scholars, students, and serious general readers worldwide. Click here to explore our forthcoming books, grouped by subject area.

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Tobias Kelly, Series Editor

Ambikaipaker, Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (hc 2002, eb 2013)

Besteman, Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery (pb 1999, eb 2014)

Billaud, Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Bornstein, Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel (pb 2003)

Bucaille/Rundell, Making Peace with Your Enemy: Algerian, French, and South African Ex-Combatants (hc Jun 2019)

Buch Segal, No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Cabot, On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece (hc 2014, eb 2014)

Doughty, Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (pb 2009)

Duschinski/Bhan, Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Hermez, War Is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon (hc 2017, eb 2017)

Hinton/Good, Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective (hc 2015, pb Mar 2019, eb 2015)

Honwana, Child Soldiers in Africa (pb 2007, eb 2011)

Hromadžić, Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Jensen/Ronsbo, Histories of Victimhood (hc 2014, eb 2014)

Jok, War and Slavery in Sudan (pb 2001, eb 2010)

Maček, Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime (pb 2011, eb 2016)

Menon, Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India (pb 2012, eb 2011)

Moodie, El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy (pb 2012, eb 2011)

Moran, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (pb 2008, eb 2013)

Neofotistos, The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia (hc 2012, eb 2012)

Neuman, Settling Hebron: Jewish Fundamentalism in a Palestinian City (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story (pb 1997)

Ochs, Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Peteet, Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (pb 2009, eb 2011)

Pettigrew/Gellner, Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War (hc 2013, eb 2013)

Redeker Hepner, Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora (pb 2011)

Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (pb 2007, eb 2010)

Robben, Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War (pb 2011, eb 2010)

Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (pb 2004, eb 2012)

Sluka, Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (pb 1999, eb 2010)

Stølen, Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence: The Refugees' Return (hc 2007)

Thiranagama/Obeyesekere, In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Weiss, Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty (hc 2014, eb 2014)

Wilson, Sovereignty in Exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Wright, The Israeli Radical Left: An Ethics of Complicity (hc 2018, eb 2018)